In 1983 journalist Rex Grizell and his French wife decamped from their Westminster town house to a remote corner of south-west France. This is an often amusing account of their new life - how the property was bought, the trials of modernizing the house and developing the gites, and the delicate process of being accepted into the local community. The Gascons are jovial, hot-blooded and, it seems, highly-sexed. Grizell draws an unsentimental picture of a gallery of vivid local characters. He also writes of the hedonistic side of life in Gascony - the food and wine, the uninhibited al fresco parties and the beautiful benevolent landscape.
- ISBN10 057505400X
- ISBN13 9780575054004
- Publish Date 24 September 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 November 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Gollancz
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English