{"product_id":"la-vie-a-year-in-rural-france","title":"La Vie: A Year in Rural France","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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, La Vie.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Lewis-Stempel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45490590416943,"sku":"9781804995815","price":999.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9781804995815.jpg?v=1781788893","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/la-vie-a-year-in-rural-france","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}