Book description
Tired of his life as a globe-trotting journalist, and desperate to
finish his latest novel, writer Derek Lambert decides to settle with
his new wife and young son in a mouldering casita nestled among
citrus groves inland of the Costa Blanca.
As he sets about restoring his house and learning to live the
ordinary life of a Spanish villager, Lambert introduces us to a Spain
far removed from the tourist traps and thumping discos of the Costas,
and soon discovers that adapting to this new life is not as easy as he
imagined. He employs a roofer who's afraid of heights, a plumber
confounded by a blocked pipe and bumbles through Spanish lessons with
a mocking classmate who challenges him to a public arm-wresting
contest. Then just when it seems that nothing more could go wrong, the
Lamberts face Spain's first snowstorm in many years.
Written in the jaunty, anecdotal style of Peter Mayle and Bill
Bryson, this is a warm, affectionate and often hilarious portrait of
life as a foreigner in rural Spain.
The late Derek Lambert was the author of several successful novels.
His career as a journalist took him on many adventures around the world,
from being shot at in Israel to journeying up the Himalayas in a jeep.
He eventually settled in Alicante, Spain, with his wife and son.
