Toute allure
Subtitle: falling in love in rural France
By: Karen Wheeler
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9781849530668
Subjects: Social life and customs; Homes and haunts; Homes; Manners and customs; English; Biography
Description: After reaching the heights as a successful fashion editor, Karen said goodbye to all that and set about renovating a run-down house in rural Poitou-Charentes, in central western France, and living a simpler life. Her idyll is almost complete: blissfully ensconced in her fully-plumbed, tiled, floored and 'warm as the hug of a pashmina' Maison Coquelicot. Until, that is, a gang of macho Portuguese builders, a procession of Brits behaving badly and the ghosts of boyfriends past begin to arrive on her doorstep.