Deep France
Pan Books (Verlag)
978-0-330-41182-0 (ISBN)
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Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer and the cats in the back of the car, and the blessing of her student daughter, she drove South until the dawn came up in the Bearn, the most romantic, remote and rustic region of France.
DEEP FRANCE is the diary of a writer’s year in a tiny French village, trying to meet her deadlines when a good thunderstorm could blow out the computer and there were always artichokes to pick. It’s a walk in the swashbuckling footsteps of The Three Musketeers and King Henri IV, full of funny and perceptive anecdotes about the year in which France had to face the euro, the World Cup and Le Pen’s presidential campaign.
DEEP FRANCE is also about the love affair between the British – and the Australians, the New Zealanders, the South Africans, the Canadians, the Americans, the Irish, and even the Russians – and rural France. Grand passion or sad delusion? Mutual adoration or unrequited love?
An author who writes living, breathing novels capable of making us laugh, weep and marvel’ The Times
`Her writing glitters: the humour is as sharp as a Sabatier knife’ Image
Celia Brayfield is a novelist and cultural commentator. She is the author of nine novels. The latest, Wild Weekend explores the tensions in a Suffolk village in homage to Oliver Goldmsith's She Stoops to Conquer. To explore suburban living, she created the community of Westwick and explored mid-life manners in Mr Fabulous And Friends, and the environmental implications of urbanisation in Getting Home. She has often juxtaposed historical and contemporary settings, notably eighteenth century Spain in Sunset, pre-revolutionary St Petersburg in White Ice and Malaysia in the time of World War II in Pearls. Four of her novels have been optioned by major US, UK or French producers. Her non-fiction titles include two standard works on the art of writing: Arts Reviews (Kamera Books, 2008) and Bestseller (Fourth Estate, 1996.) Her most recent is Deep France (Pan, 2004) a journal of a year she spent writing in south-west France. She has served on the management committee of The Society of Authors and judged national literary awards including the Betty Trask Award and the Macmillan Silver PEN Prize. A former media columnist, she contributes to The Times, BBC Radio 4 and other national and international media.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.5.2004 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 130 x 197 mm |
| Gewicht | 262 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Bildbände | |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-330-41182-9 / 0330411829 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-330-41182-0 / 9780330411820 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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