La Vie. A year in rural France (Lewis-Stempel John); Doubleday, 2023

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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Параметр	Значение
ISBN	9780857526458
Автор(ы)	Lewis-Stempel John
Вес	0.32
Возрастное ограничение	16+
Год издания	2023
Жанр	биографии и мемуары
Издатель	Doubleday
Издательство	Doubleday
Кол-во страниц	206
Количество книг	1
Количество страниц	206
Обложка	твердый переплёт, суперобложка
Оформление обложки	суперобложка
Тип обложки	твердая