Book description
How do you find the woman of your dreams when you're nearly forty,
living in the middle of nowhere and spectacularly ungifted in the
art of seduction?
Three years into his solo adventure in rural France, Michael Wright
has everything he ever wanted: a ramshackle house, several manly power
tools, a cat, a grand piano and a vintage aircraft. Yet the lovelier
his life becomes, the lonelier he feels. Three unfulfilled wishes
return to haunt him: to grow a perfect potato, to fly a Spitfire and,
most of all, to meet his soulmate.
Written with honesty, self-deprecating wit and life-affirming
passion, Michael Wright's new memoir reveals how,
while his livestock seem bent on reproduction, a solitary man can
learn to accept being single . . .Or so he thinks until a bumptious
American Labrador and a perilous landing in a light aircraft conspire
to offer a glimpse of romance that could turn his whole world upside down.
Born in Surrey in 1966, Michael Wright enjoyed an unfashionably happy
education at Windlesham House and Sherborne and graduated from Edinburgh
University with a degree in English Literature. He spent several years
working as a theatre critic, arts columnist and literary diarist in
London whilst wondering what to do when he grew up. The answer turned
out to lie in rural France, where he now lives.
