{"product_id":"la-vie-von-john-lewis-stempel","title":"La Vie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAN INDIE BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'It reminded me all over again of why I threw up everything for the magic of \u003ci\u003eLa Belle France\u003c\/i\u003e' Carol Drinkwater, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Olive Farm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'An utterly beguiling immersion in La France Profonde, keenly observed and beautifully told' Felicity Cloake, author of \u003ci\u003eOne More Croissant for the Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\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 \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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, \u003ci\u003eLa Vie\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781804995815\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA year in rural France\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781804995815","offer_id":48697456820549,"sku":"9781804995815","price":13.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/4c5069ca-d2f0-427d-9394-f8dd9bded25d.jpg?v=1781064791","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/la-vie-von-john-lewis-stempel","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}