I hadn't heard of John Lewis-Stemple before, but apparently he is one of the UK's foremost writers on farming and the countryside. I guess he tends to write for publications I don't normally read, and he does seem rather Tory (he can trace his ancestors back to the Norman Conquest apparently). 'La Vie' was a lovely piece of wish-fulfilment, an idealised bucolic existence of self-sufficiency in rural France. To be fair to him, as beguiling as he makes the lifestyle sound, he also makes it plain that it is hard work. I will search out and read more by him.
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