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Christine Conrad's charming and spirited novel offers a fresh look at life's pleasures in the French countryside. Thirty-something American Tim Reinhart leaves New York and purchases a farmhouse in rural France, where he fills his days restoring the property and pursuing his artistic passion. Letters to his family and friends back home vividly illustrate Tim's blissful immersion in the divine meals, deep-rooted customs, and quirky community of his new pastoral surroundings. But his enchantment grows more complicated when he befriends another artist -- his beautiful and much older neighbor, Catherine Benoir. As their relationship escalates, tensions run high on both sides of the Atlantic. From her aristocratic family's fiery protests and his parents' pleas of caution to the astonishing response of the village locals, Tim and Catherine's love affair triggers explosive reactions.
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CHRISTINE CONRAD has worked as the New York City film commissioner, as an editor in book publishing, as a screenwriter for motion pictures and television, and as an advocate for women’s health. Conrad lives in Los Angeles.
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Conrad's pleasant first novel follows Tim Reinhart, a 30-something American mathematics professor, as he transforms a run-down farmhouse in the south of France into habitable living quarters and an artist's studio, struggling with the vagaries of French culture, romance and inheritance laws along the way. The story unfolds entirely through letters and diary entries—an artifice that loses steam halfway through the story—and though the author captures the charms and frustrations an outsider encounters in France, she doesn't achieve a credible male voice or the quirky appeal of A Year in Provence. Tim's on-again-off-again relationship with a neighbor, Marcelline Becaze, a lawyer in a nearby village, provides some spice, but the culture clash really heats up when his friendship with Catherine Benoir, a French woman nearly 30 years his senior, deepens into romance. Catherine's older sister, Pauline, is horrified at this slap in the face to French tradition. Her extreme and often amusing attempts to quash the relationship provide an intriguing look into French mores and traditions. Though she turns most of her family against Tim and Catherine and tries to use her family's clout with the Catholic Church to impede their nuptials, love, as always, prevails. (Jan. 4)
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- PublisherMariner Books
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 061877209X
- ISBN 13 9780618772094
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages240
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