La Vie
A year in rural France
$24.65
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
22 October 2024
Summary
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 Sunday Times bestseller.
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, t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804995815 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804995819 |
| Author: | John Lewis-Stempel |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 146g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 127mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
John Lewis-Stempel
John Lewis-Stempel is a farmer and ‘Britain’s finest living nature writer’ (The Times). His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers Woodston, The Running Hare and The Wood. He is the only person to have won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing twice, with Meadowland and Where Poppies Blow. In 2016 he was named Magazine Columnist of the Year for his column in Country Life. He farms cattle, sheep, pigs and poultry. Traditionally.
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