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Dans Son Jus : "A Humorous Expat Memoir of French Life, Real Estate Follies, and Cultural Confusion"
Dans Son A True Story of Chaos, Charm, and Starting Over in France.
You think you're ready for a fresh start in the French countryside, until you're ankle-deep in bureaucracy, chasing runaway builders, and learning the hard way that “rustic charm” often means no heating.
Dans Son Jus is a fiercely honest, wickedly funny memoir about what happens when you leave everything behind to follow the dream. It's about collapsing ceilings, cultural confusion, and unexpected epiphanies in the most inconvenient places.
Through wild detours and quiet reckonings, it captures the thrill, fear, heartbreak, and hope that come with rebuilding a life, brick by brick, laugh by laugh, disaster by disaster.
If you've ever wanted to burn the rulebook, start again, or feel less alone in the chaos of it all, this book is your permission slip.
You think you're ready for a fresh start in the French countryside, until you're ankle-deep in bureaucracy, chasing runaway builders, and learning the hard way that “rustic charm” often means no heating.
Dans Son Jus is a fiercely honest, wickedly funny memoir about what happens when you leave everything behind to follow the dream. It's about collapsing ceilings, cultural confusion, and unexpected epiphanies in the most inconvenient places.
Through wild detours and quiet reckonings, it captures the thrill, fear, heartbreak, and hope that come with rebuilding a life, brick by brick, laugh by laugh, disaster by disaster.
If you've ever wanted to burn the rulebook, start again, or feel less alone in the chaos of it all, this book is your permission slip.
272 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 21, 2025
About the author
Mark Berridge
4 books3 followersA road cycling incident turned Mark’s world upside down by inflicting devastating spinal cord damage.
Mark summoned the same skill and talent he deployed in the corporate arena to formulate and execute the best possible physical recovery, only to face the battle of renegotiating his identity as both a corporate professional and as a husband and father.
Mark’s determination and conviction have been strengthened and his world view has greater clarity. Mark shares insights from his lived experience with signature humility which have immediate application in both our personal and our professional lives.
Mark summoned the same skill and talent he deployed in the corporate arena to formulate and execute the best possible physical recovery, only to face the battle of renegotiating his identity as both a corporate professional and as a husband and father.
Mark’s determination and conviction have been strengthened and his world view has greater clarity. Mark shares insights from his lived experience with signature humility which have immediate application in both our personal and our professional lives.
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