LA VIE: A YEAR IN RURAL FRANCE (HB)

For many years a farmer in England, John Lewis-Stempel yearned once again to live in a landscape where turtle doves purr and nightingales sing, as they did almost everywhere in his childhood. Over his first year in France, Lewis-Stempel fell in love with the countryside, from the wild boar that trot past the kitchen window to the glow-worms and citronella candles that flicker in the evening garden. Although the move began as a practical enterprise, it quickly became an affair of the heart.