A warm and uplifting story of how a woman falls in love with a place and its people: a landscape, a community and a fragile way of life.
A rural idyll: that's what Catherine is seeking when she sells her house in England and moves to a tiny hamlet in the Cévennes mountains. With her divorce in the past and her children grown, she is free to make a new start, and her dream is to set up in business as a seamstress. But this is a harsh and lonely place when you're no longer just here on holiday. There is French bureaucracy to contend with, not to mention the mountain weather, and the reserve of her neighbours, including the intriguing Patrick Castagnol. And that's before the arrival of Catherine's sister, Bryony...
ISBN: | 9780755345571 |
Publication date: | 14th October 2010 |
Author: | Rosy Thornton |
Publisher: | Headline Review an imprint of Headline Publishing Group |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 406 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Identity / belonging Narrative theme: Sense of place Humorous Fiction |