
My Good Life in France
In Pursuit of the Rural Dream
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Narrated by:
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Esther Wane
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By:
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Janine Marsh
One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not something she'd expected or planned for.
Janine eventually gave up her job in London to move with her husband to live the good life in France. Or so she hoped. While getting to grips with the locals and la vie Française, and renovating her dilapidated new house, a building lacking the comforts of mains drainage, heating, or proper rooms, and with little money and less of a clue, she started to realize there was lot more to her new home than she could ever have imagined.
Ten years ago, Janine Marsh decided to leave her corporate life behind to fix up a run-down barn in northern France. This is the true story of her rollercoaster ride, in many ways a love story, with her sharp observations on the very different way of life, culture, and etiquette of France.
From her early struggles and homesickness through personal tragedy, to her attempts to become self-sufficient and to breed "the fattest chickens in the village", Janine learned that there was more to her new home than she could ever have imagined.
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Easy to listen to for a Francophile
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This is about living in and fixing up a several-hundred-year-old house with a small area of land in a small village in the north of France. The couple moved there from England on a normal budget, not the Peter Mayle well-off Provence type. So it is more realistic for a normal couple.
I read Peter Mayle's books on Provence a while ago and wanted to find similar books about country living. While there are plenty of books about France, most of them are about the big city and/or not so interesting. This book was the type I was after.
Check out her modern website with the same name, you'll find a ton of information for expats and travelers!
Really funny, delightful, informative
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"Under the Tuscan Sun," set in France
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Loved it
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Beauty of France
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Best narration
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relocation
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Absolutely LOVED it!
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The cautionary tales were also much appts as I am.In the process of purchasing my own house in a country village!
Wonderful Study of French Country Life
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First, to move to France, you need to be fluent in
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