Book description
Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from
Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer
and the cats in the back of the car, and the blessing of her student
daughter, she drove South until the dawn came up in the Bearn, the most
romantic, remote and rustic region of France. DEEP FRANCE is the diary
of a writer's year in a tiny French village, trying to meet her
deadlines when a good thunderstorm could blow out the computer and there
were always artichokes to pick. It's a walk in the swashbuckling
footsteps of The Three Musketeers and King Henri IV, full of funny and
perceptive anecdotes about the year in which France had to face the
euro, the World Cup and Le Pen's presidential campaign. DEEP FRANCE is
also about the love affair between the British - and the Australians,
the New Zealanders, the South Africans, the Canadians, the Americans,
the Irish, and even the Russians - and rural France. Grand passion or
sad delusion? Mutual adoration or unrequited love? An author who writes
living, breathing novels capable of making us laugh, weep and marvel'
The Times 'Her writing glitters: the humour is as sharp as a Sabatier
knife' Image
Celia Brayfield is the author of nine novels including the
international bestseller, Pearls, as well as a non-fiction
guide to storytelling in popular fiction, Bestseller. Before
becoming a full-time novelist, she wrote for the Evening
Standard and The Times. She has one daughter, with whom she
now lives in west London.
