| Description |
255 pages ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
One cold, wet day -- C'est la vie -- Un coup de foudre -- Sign here on the dotted line -- Summer in the Seven Valleys -- It's as cold as ice -- Getting to know you, getting to know all about you -- Decision time -- Madame Merde -- The art of small steps -- The best-laid plans of mice and men -- Village life -- In which life will never be the same again -- I say potatoes, you say pommes de terre -- Flop chef, not top chef -- Animal magic -- The Forrest Gump of blogging -- Tour de France -- French cuisine -- More cats than you can shake a tail at -- The birthday party -- The land of milk and honey -- Home is where the heart is -- The end or, rather, the beginning -- How to be a successful expat in France. |
| Summary |
One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not something she'd expected or planned for.Janine eventually gave up her job in London to move with her husband to live the good life in France. Or so she hoped. While getting to grips with the locals and la vie Française, and renovating her dilapidated new house, a building lacking the comforts of mains drainage, heating or proper rooms, and with little money and less of a clue, she started to realize there was lot more to her new home than she could ever have imagined. |
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Marsh, Janine.
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Marsh, Mark.
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Country life -- France, Northern.
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English -- France, Northern -- Biography.
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France, Northern -- Social life and customs.
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| Genre |
Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
9781782437321 (pbk.) |
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1782437320 (pbk.) |
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