My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream (The Good Life France)

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This is an English woman’s memoir of how she moved to rural northern France - bottom line: moving to a new country ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. What strategies do you suggest for getting used to the increased “together time” in a strange land and with a new language?

After shuttling back and forth between England and rural France, Janine and her husband Mark decide to make the move to live in France full time and dedicate their time to restoring the run-down house that they bought. Having overcome the obstacles of starting to renovate her dream home - an ancient, dilapidated barn - and fitting in with the peculiarities of the locals, Janine is now the go-to expat in the area for those seeking to get to grips with a very different way of life.Loved this lighthearted romp through the expat experience in France Lovely stories of her parents also. What is so often missed is the need to go to live in France as French people, not as Brits (or whatever). She talks about the process of moving there, life events, customs, local traditions, in a casual story-telling style that keeps my attention.

The book came out in the UK in May 2017, and to my immense surprise (and it’s such a thrill) it’s become a best seller in the UK.He now says he wouldn’t have done that but it made me realise how important it was to him, and I had a choice – love or money. It turned into a life-time project requiring far more time, money and energy than she could ever have imagined. Janine has a very readable style and reading this felt as though I was catching up with a friend’s about what had been going on in their life.