La Vie av John Lewis-Stempel

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<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 L