Foreign female gripped by a friend from Paris, a storyteller (10)
I believe the answer is:
unfamiliar
'foreign' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'female gripped by a friend from paris a storyteller' is the wordplay.
'female' becomes 'f' (common abbreviation).
'gripped' becomes 'un' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'a friend from paris' becomes 'ami' ('friend' in French).
'a storyteller' becomes 'liar' (someone telling lies).
'f' after 'un' is 'unf'.
'unf'+'ami'+'liar'='UNFAMILIAR'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for unfamiliar that I've seen before include "Not recognised" , "Strange" , "novel" , "Unknown" .)