Acquired via BookCrossing 18 Sep 2008 – on a bookring

In which a Californian couple “accidentally” purchase a house in a hilltop village in Southern France…

I do like an “expatriates settle in abroad” read and this was a good example. The author’s style is nice and fresh and confiding without being twee or patronising the locals; I particularly liked the tales of her freezing in the house in winter and I’ll complain a little less when we freeze in our big English terraced house – at least ice doesn’t actually form inside the walls! The recipes were lovely and ah… I pine for the lavendar and actually for the South of France…