Real Life Tales
On
a winter's day in 2002, a bottle shaped like a tear washed up on the Kent coast.
It contained a letter written in French, a lock of hair, and a mystery. Only one
thing could be known for certain - that the writer of the letter was a mother,
grieving for her lost child, Maurice...
Novels and Real Life Tales
Read real life tales from other people who have made the move to France and novels...
The Letter in the Bottle
On
a winter's day in 2002, a bottle shaped like a tear washed up on the Kent coast.
It contained a letter written in French, a lock of hair, and a mystery. Only one
thing could be known for certain - that the writer of the letter was a mother,
grieving for her lost child, Maurice...
Toute Allure: Falling in Love in Rural France
After
reaching the heights as a successful fashion editor, Karen said goodbye to all
that and set about renovating a run-down house in rural Poitou-Charentes, in
central western France, and living a simpler life...
Not Another Bloody Goat!
Travel
to the last house on a narrow French country road and meet its colourful
residents in Not Another Bloody Goat! The Goatlady of Les Penins, Lois
Tuffield’s true-life account of two years spent in western France with her
husband and their animal friends...
House in the sunflowers
In
the late 1970s in the south-west of France, Ruth Silvestre and her family found
Bel-Air de Grezelongue, a house that had been deserted and uninhabited for ten
years. They fell in love with it...
Return to the Olive Farm
After
almost two years of solitary travelling, Carol Drinkwater returns home to her
olive farm in Provence to find that France is at the forefront of an organic
revolution. 2 per cent of French farming has gone 'bio', become organic, and
others are following...
For Better For Worse, For Richer For Poorer
Damian
Horner is scared that fifteen years in advertising have turned him into a
bastard. As he approaches his fortieth birthday, he wants to see if he can be a
good husband and a good father before it's too late. Siobhan, his wife, would
like to find out too but has other worries...
Nancy Wake
Nancy
Wake is one of the true heroines of the Second World War. Born in New Zealand,
she was living in Marseille and was married to Frenchman Henri Fiocca when the
Germans invaded. Nancy immediately became active in the Resistance movement,
smuggling messages and food...
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Renée
is the concierge of a grand Parisian apartment building on the Left Bank. To the
residents she is honest, reliable and uncultivated an ideal concierge. But Renée
has a secret. Beneath this conventional façade she is passionate about culture
and the arts, and more knowledgeable in many ways than her employers with their
outwardly successful but emotionally void lives....
Moondrop to Gascony
On
a cold, moonlit night in January 1944, Anne-Marie Walters, just 20 years old,
parachuted into southwest France to work with the Resistance in preparation for
the long-awaited Allied invasion. The daughter of a British father and a French
mother...
Serge Bastarde Ate My Baguette: On the Road in the Real Rural France
When ex-blues drummer John Dummer decamps to France to start up as an antiques dealer and live the simple life, he doesn't count on meeting Serge Bastarde. The lovable (if improbably named) rogue and brocanteur offers to teach John...
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
Making
use of overlooked and new material from over thirty archives in half a dozen
countries, D-Day is the most vivid and well-researched account yet of the battle
of Normandy. As with Stalingrad and Berlin, Antony Beevor's gripping narrative
conveys the true experience of war...
The Secret Life of France
In The Secret Life of France Lucy leads us on a journey through the French moral maze and examines French attitudes to a range of subjects from marriage and adultery to work and race relations. By taking apart the clichés she helps us gain a better understanding of this nearest and most alien of...
Detour De France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education
Though happy enough with his lot, Michael Simkins has never truly shaken the
nagging doubt - helpfully upheld by his partner Julia - that he somehow lacks
worldly sophistication. Armed only with 50 Useful French Phrases he embarks on
an odyssey that takes him from Manche to the Riviera...
A Chateau of One's Own: Restoration Misadventures in France
Sam and Bud were ordinary first-time home buyers in their early thirties. Their intention, in moving to France, was to create a simple life in a place where they could spend time with their children. The home they actually bought was a 17th century chateau...Chateau Monty
Top wine critic and author, Monty Waldin, has decided to put his money where his opinionated mouth is and pack it all in to make wine biodynamically in rural France. He has just over a year to turn 5.4 acres into top selling organic wine. Renovating an old cabin on his vineyard so he can babysit his vines...
I'll Never Be French (No Matter What I Do)
Tired of Provence in books, cuisine, and tablecloths? Exhausted from your armchair travels to Paris? Despairing of ever finding a place that speaks to you beyond reason? You are ripe for a journey to Brittany, where author Mark Greenside...
A Piano in the Pyrenees
Inspired by breathtaking views and romantic dreams of finding love in the mountains, Tony Hawks impulsively buys a
house in the French Pyrenees. Here, he plans to finally fulfil his childhood
fantasy of mastering the piano...C'est La Folie
One
day in late summer, Michael Wright gave up his comfortable South London
existence and, with only his long-suffering cat for company, set out to begin a
new life. His destination was 'La Folie', a dilapidated 15th century farmhouse
in need of love...A Botcher in France
Idly
leafing through the Sunday supplements, Trevor Danby spotted an advertisement
for what seemed like implausibly cheap properties in the Charente region of
France. Intrigued, but without any intention to buy, he contacted the agents and set off...Au Revoir: Running Away from Home at Fifty
Living the good life in the Blue Mountains in Australia with her husband, four grown-up children and four (and counting) grandchildren, Mary Moody's life was full. Like many women of her generation, caught up with...A Normandy Tapestry: A Portrait of Rural France
The author moved to France with his wife and children to study French. The job he found to pay for his studies, 'taking on' and selling French property, has taken him behind the scenes of French rural life...More Articles...
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