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LA VIE - JOHN LEWIS-STEMPEL GEBUNDEN

AN INDIE BESTSELLER'It reminded me all over again of why I threw up everything for the magic of
La Belle France' Carol Drinkwater  author of The Olive Farm'An utterly beguiling immersion in
La France Profonde  keenly observed and beautifully told' Felicity Cloake  author of One More
Croissant for the RoadFor 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  the sound of bells skipping across miles of rolling 
glorious countryside.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.

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