Talking about books, I want to mention Karen Wheeler's book 'Tout Sweet', currently my favorite, read it twice already, and recommending it massively to all and everyone. It is a sheer delight to read, funny, witty, engrossing, vivid, full of comical anecdotes on her new life in a small village of Poitou Charentes, renovating an old house,'Maison Coquelicot' and getting to know the numerous and often eccentric british expats settled over there. Utterly unpretentious and a genuine experience, it is a wonderful feel-good read that you will be sorry to finish, because life with Karen is a very sweet pleasure indeed !
A refreshing take on the 'french memoirs', Karen gives it a delicious twist with a S.A.T.C. treatment !
Now impatiently awaiting the second part hopefully already in process !
Could also mention Ariel Leve 'Cassandra Chronicles', the sum of her columns for the Sunday Times. Self-deprecating pessimist with a terrific sense of humour...I have not read something so amusing for a long time !
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