{"product_id":"la-vie-john-lewis-stempel-9781804995815","title":"La vie by John Lewis-Stempel (Paperback)","description":"The Charente- roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached-white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his rounds in his battered little white van with a hundred warm baguettes in the back, while a cat picks its way past a Romanesque church, the sound of bells skipping across miles of rolling, glorious countryside.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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. He wanted to be self-sufficient, to make his own wine and learn the secrets of truffle farming. And so, buying an old honey-coloured limestone house with bright blue shutters, the Lewis-Stempels began their new life as peasant farmers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Over that first year, Lewis-Stempel fell in love with the French 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 it began as a practical enterprise, it quickly became an affair of the heart- of learning to bite the end off the morning baguette; taking two hours for lunch; in short, living the good life - or as the French say, \u003ci\u003eLa Vie\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55333314363735,"sku":"9781804995815","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0799\/4569\/5575\/files\/9781804995815.jpg?v=1791494420","url":"https:\/\/somiibooks.com\/products\/la-vie-john-lewis-stempel-9781804995815","provider":"Somiibooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}