TY - BOOK AU - deWitt,Patrick TI - French exit SN - 9781526601179 (hbk.) : AV - PS3604.E923 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury KW - General KW - eflch KW - ukslc N2 - Frances Price - tart, widow, possessive mother and Upper East Side force of nature - is in dire straits, beset by scandal. Her adult son, Malcolm, is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there's their cat, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts. The curious trio head for the exit, escape pariahdom and land in Paris - a backdrop for self-destruction and economic ruin, and peopled by a number of singular characters ER -