La Vie

A year in rural France

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Beschreibung

<p><b>AN INDIE BESTSELLER<br><br>'It reminded me all over again of why I threw up everything for the magic of <i>La Belle France</i>' Carol Drinkwater, author of <i>The Olive Farm</i><br><br>'An utterly beguiling immersion in La France Profonde, keenly observed and beautifully told' Felicity Cloake, author of <i>One More Croissant for the Road</i></b><br><br><b>For fans of Peter Mayle, 'Britain's finest living nature writer' takes the plunge and buys an old farmhouse deep in the French countryside - a perfect slice of sunny escapist joy from the perennial <i>Sunday Times </i>bestseller.</b><br><br>The Charente: roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his rounds in his battered little white van with a hundred warm baguettes in the back, while a cat picks its way past a Romanesque church, the sound of bells skipping across miles of rolling, glorious countryside.<br><br>For many years a farmer in England, John Lewis-Stempel yearned once again to live in a landscape where turtle doves purr and nightingales sing, as they did almost everywhere in his childhood. He wanted to be self-sufficient, to make his own wine and learn the secrets of truffle farming. And so, buying an old honey-coloured limestone house with bright blue shutters, the Lewis-Stempels began their new life as peasant farmers.<br><br>Over that first year, Lewis-Stempel fell in love with the French countryside, from the wild boar that trot past the kitchen window to the glow-worms and citronella candles that flicker in the evening garden. Although it began as a practical enterprise, it quickly became an affair of the heart: of learning to bite the end off the morning baguette; taking two hours for lunch; in short, living the good life - or as the French say, <i>La Vie</i>.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781804995815

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

197 x 129 x 25 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Verlag / Hersteller

Transworld Publ. Ltd UK