{"product_id":"la-vie-a-year-in-rural-france","title":"La Vie","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":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"La Vie A Year in Rural France","offer_id":46371504193733,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-80499-581-5.jpg?v=1781676759","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/la-vie-a-year-in-rural-france","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}