{"product_id":"signed-la-vie-pre-order-for-18-5-23","title":"La Vie","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Charente: roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his rounds in his battered little white van with a hundred warm baguettes in the back, while a cat picks its way past a Romanesque church, the sound of bells skipping across miles of rolling, glorious countryside. For many years a farmer in England, John Lewis-Stempel yearned once again to live in a landscape where turtle doves purr and nightingales sing, as they did almost everywhere in his childhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe wanted to be self-sufficient, to make his own wine and learn the secrets of truffle farming. And so, buying an old honey-coloured limestone house with bright blue shutters, the Lewis-Stempels began their new life as peasant farmers. Over that first year, Lewis-Stempel fell in love with the French countryside, from the wild boar that trot past the kitchen window to the glow-worms and citronella candles that flicker in the evening garden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough it began as a practical enterprise, it quickly became an affair of the heart: of learning to bite the end off the morning baguette; taking two hours for lunch; in short, living the good life - or as the French say, La Vie.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e***\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat:Hardback 208 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd\u003cbr\u003eImprint:Doubleday\u003cbr\u003eISBN:9780857526458\u003cbr\u003ePublished:18 May 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41074291605548,"sku":"9780857526458","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/products\/9780857526458_49b3c49b-90a4-4f1f-9183-08de9d031ccb.jpg?v=1678366669","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/signed-la-vie-pre-order-for-18-5-23","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}