La vie : a year in rural France
Lewis-Stempel, John2023
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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. 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, La Vie.
Main title:
La vie : a year in rural France / John Lewis-Stempel.
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Imprint:
London : Doubleday, 2023.
Collation:
viii, 194 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780857526458 (hbk)
Language:
English
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BRN:
3381211