My Good Life in France, Janine Marsh
My Good Life in France, Janine Marsh
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My Good Life in France
In Pursuit of the Rural Dream

Author: Janine Marsh

Narrator: Esther Wane

Unabridged: 6 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/13/2018


Synopsis

One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not something she'd expected or planned for.

Janine eventually gave up her job in London to move with her husband to live the good life in France. Or so she hoped. While getting to grips with the locals and la vie Française, and renovating her dilapidated new house, a building lacking the comforts of mains drainage, heating, or proper rooms, and with little money and less of a clue, she started to realize there was lot more to her new home than she could ever have imagined. Ten years ago, Janine Marsh decided to leave her corporate life behind to fix up a run-down barn in northern France. This is the true story of her rollercoaster ride, in many ways a love story, with her sharp observations on the very different way of life, culture, and etiquette of France.

From her early struggles and homesickness through personal tragedy, to her attempts to become self-sufficient and to breed "the fattest chickens in the village," Janine learned that there was more to her new home than she could ever have imagined.

About Janine Marsh

Janine Marsh is an award-winning travel writer and editor of the Good Life France Magazine.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Caroline on October 22, 2021

For those of us here in the UK, used to seeing Dick and Angel Strawbridge on our screens, in the popular Escape to the Château television series, this book is going to come as a bit of a shock. The property bought By Janine Marsh and her husband did not in any way fit into the romantic châteaux diet......more

Goodreads review by Liza on May 22, 2017

I might not be brave enough to renovate a run-down barn in rural France, but as an ex-pat living in a French village, I can totally relate to Janine Marsh’s book, My Good Life in France. The author’s new life in France started out quite differently to most ex-pats though: whilst on one of her regular......more

Goodreads review by Maria on May 13, 2024

This was one of my book club's picks. It was interesting. It's a memoir about a woman buying a house in France and moving from an urban to rural setting. I had a hard time empathizing with her. When she describes this house, it's a nightmare. It should be bulldozed and just rebuilt. So when she comp......more