Julie B. (heartinthehighlands) reviewed on 7/16/2008 + 54 more book reviews

This is a very beautiful book. Nonfiction. A young artist from Chicago goes to France, falls in love and marries a French artist and moves into a crumbing set of stone farmhouses deep in the countryside of Brittany. More than anything else, this book is about a very unlikely friendship that develops between herself and the 68 year old peasant woman who lives across the road. Jeanne tutors her in country life, watches over her, protects her, and the love that develops between them is interesting as each woman gives to the other. It's a wonderful story, and at times it's almost stranger than fiction; which of course is so often true of life.

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