Deep France: A Writer's Year in the Bearn

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  • Author: Celia Brayfield
  • Publisher: Pan Books
  • Catalogue: 122189
  • Size: 13x20cm
What do you do when your daughter tells you it's time to leave the nest? Throw the computer into the back of the car, pack your bags and move your entire household, including your cats, to France, naturally.

Celia Brayfield tells of her year in a tiny village in the Bearn, the land of the Three Musketeers and France's answer to Texas.

The book gives an insight into a writer's life dans la France profonde that's full of funny and perceptive anecdotes - trying to meet the deadlines when a good thunderstorm could blow out the computer, artichokes to pick, the wildlife in the woodpile, the low-life in the Fandango cafe, why Frenchmen are so sexy, not to mention the portraits of Peter Mayle's children, some of the half-million Brits who are out there living their dreams.

Brayfield sounds thoroughly nice, brave, homorous and independent. This is a long love letter to her beloved Bearn.