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Mum of five, journalist - and, now, novelist - Gillian Harvey finds a silver lining in confinement

Although French, I read your paper with interest each month.... but it is not perfect.

Attacks by police on ethnic and religious minority youths are a disturbingly regular occurrence in France, especially on housing estates. They range from day-to-day assaults that are seldom reported, to outrages that for all the right reasons make international news.

A study has found that escaping the rat race is just the beginning of all the clever things we do as Brits living in France - and I agree