Author Description

In 1983, journalist Rex Grizell and his French wife left the sophistication of a Westminster town house to face the challenge of an unfamiliar life in a remote corner of south-west France. This is an account of how their property was bought, the trials - often hilarious - of modernizing it; and the delicate process of being accepted into the local community. A shrewd picture is drawn of local characters, and Rex Grizell also writes evocatively of the simpler, more hedonistic side of life in Gascony.