Book description
Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist.
At age 17 Chris retired as the drummer of Genesis and launched a
career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets about
this. Had he become a big-time rock star he might never have moved
with his wife Ana to a remote mountain farm in Andalucia. Nor forged
the friendship of a lifetime with his resourceful peasant neighbour
Domingo...not watched his baby daughter Chloe grow and thrive
there...nor written this book.
Fate does sometimes seem to know what it's up to.
Driving Over Lemons is that rare thing: a funny, insightful book
that charms you from the first page to the last...and one that makes
running a peasant farm in Spain seem like a distinctly gd move. Chris
transports us to Las Alpujarras, an oddball region south of Granada,
and into a series of misadventures with an engaging mix of peasant
farmers and shepherds, New Age travellers and ex-pats. The hero of the
piece, however, is the farm that he and Ana bought, El Valero -- a
patch of mountain studded with olive, almond and lemon groves, sited
on the wrong side of a river, with no access road, water supply or electricity.
Could life offer much better than that? Driving Over Lemons has
sold over a million copies since publication in 1999. The title has
been translated into 9 languages.
