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Lisa (Harmonybites)
Oct 15, 2012 rated it it was ok
Shelves: travel, biography, non-fiction, memoir, ultimate-reading-list
I read this book because it was recommended in The Ultimate Reading List under the Travel section. Unfortunately, I had read it after very similar books on the list: Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence, Frances Mayes Under the Tuscan Sun and Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons. Like Mayles, Drinkwater is a foreigner who decides to settle in Provence. Like Stewart, she plunges her life savings into land she tries to make into a working farm. And like Mayes, there's a romantic villa on the property. ...more
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Suzanne
Feb 02, 2011 rated it really liked it
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Kathleen Valentine
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Rene Daihl
Jan 29, 2017 rated it it was amazing
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