Please visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/619043to listen full audiobooks. Title: La Vie: A year in rural France Author: John Lewis-Stempel Narrator: Leighton Pugh Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 4 minutes Release date: May 18, 2023 Genres: Essays & Anthologies Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. The 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. For 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. Over 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. 'It reminded me all over again of why I threw up everything for the magic of La Belle France' Carol Drinkwater ©2023 John Lewis-Stempel (P)2023 Penguin Audio

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