{"product_id":"9781804995815","title":"La Vie : A year in rural France","description":"\u003cp\u003eAN INDIE BESTSELLER\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'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\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'An utterly beguiling immersion in La France Profonde, keenly observed and beautifully told' Felicity Cloake, author of One More Croissant for the Road\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin (Transworld)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48226994553067,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":31.7,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781804995815-1.jpg?v=1781705680","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781804995815","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}