Libro Toute Allure: Falling in Love in Rural France De Karen Wheeler

portada Toute Allure: Falling in Love in Rural France

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Summersdale

Autor

Karen Wheeler

Categoría

Literatura y Ficción

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

320

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781849530668

Toute Allure: Falling in Love in Rural France

Karen Wheeler (Autor) · Summersdale · Tapa Blanda

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There is so much to look forward to in the months ahead - to lengthening evenings, bike rides past fields of sunflowers or wild meadows of bluebells and poppies (just like the seventies Flake ad) and several months of fetes, vide greniers (car boot sales) and barbecues in friends' gardens. And I cannot wait to get back to see if Andy Lawton has called...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. Her idyll is almost complete when she is blissfully ensconced in her fully plumbed, tiled, floored and 'warm as the hug of a pashmina' Maison Coquelicot - until, that is, a gang of macho Portuguese builders, a procession of Brits behaving badly and the ghosts of boyfriends past begin to arrive on her doorstep. Karen soon finds her (dancing) feet in the small rural community when she discovers the key to acceptance is le danse country. And after a few shuffles and twirls she meets the love of her life - he has dark, shaggy hair, four paws and a wet nose...