The Hazelnut Grove - Couverture souple

Read, Paula

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1788649141 ISBN 13 : 9781788649148

Editeur : Cinnamon Press, 2020

Synopsis

On the surface, a young professional couple, Sarah and Luke craved a different, more self-sufficient life. Trading the comfort of a two-bedroom English cottage for a derelict house in northwest Italy, The Hazelnut Grove explores the joys and demands of daring to live in search of a dream. Interspersed with anecdotes of the authors familys holiday cottage in rural France, Sarah and Lukes new life moves between fairy tale and a story of courage and self-reliance as their new neighbour, nicknamed il Cattivo, the nasty one, decides to make war over the desolate hazelnut grove behind their house, a two metre strip of land. As events that might have driven them away, unfold, especially Sarah, who does not share Lukes Italian heritage, a picture emerges of not only how the Italian life has tested Sarah, but also how she discovered in herself both a grand obstinacy and a respect for materials and objects of that life. A chunk of rusting metal becomes, in Sarahs eyes, an artefact with potential, and Sarah becomes an artist. Set in Piedmont, renowned for its wine and food, a story of abundance and thriving slowly emerges against the challenges of a menacing neighbour, the deaths of beloved animals and the loneliness of getting to grips with an unfamiliar language and culture. When asked by English friends: Would you ever move back home again? Luke and Sarah can only answer: We are home. Part memoir, part biography, this is one of a kind travel writing exploring a real-life dream of a place in the sun.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paula Read started out as a journalist and subsequently trained as a languages teacher. She lives in London now, but has also lived and worked in France, Canada (where she worked as a French/English interpreter) and the USA. The Hazelnut Grove is about the joys and woes of moving to another European country at a time when Europe signified something to be part of not a place to escape from.

She has had several short stories published and is currently working on a second non-fiction book about the fate of forced labourers from occupied France in World War II.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cinnamon Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1788649141
• ISBN 13: 9781788649148
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible