My Grape Village

Name: My Grape Village
Brand: Findaway Voices
Availability: InStock
Author: Laura Bradbury
ISBN: 9781989784020

Author: Laura Bradbury

Series: Grape Series #5

Narrator: Hope Newhouse

Unabridged: 11 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Laura Bradbury

Published: 01/09/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Travel, Europe, France, Memoirs

Synopsis

Five years after My Grape Escape, Laura and Franck are back in Burgundy to tackle their newest project, a derelict 16th-century winemaker's cottage located behind Franck's family home.Navigating the different rules for raising children and managing a family in a small French village prove every bit as challenging for Laura as learning to drive a stick shift through narrow streets or arguing with tyrannical French officials over paint colors (spoiler alert: any color as long as it's gray). Come along on this evocative and honest journey where love, coupled with good French food and local wine, pave the way to la belle vie.PRAISE FOR LAURA BRADBURY"Bradbury's Grape Series feels like a series of honest and funny letters sent from a friend about her fascinating (and sometimes baffling) life in France. A beautiful read."—JANICE MACLEOD, New York Times bestselling author of Paris Letters and A Paris Year"Bradbury's Grape Series takes the reader on a romantic adventure into the heart, soul, and people of la belle France. Filled with delicious food, love, and laughter, Bradbury's writing proves that you have to dare to follow your heart wherever it leads you...and that sometimes we have to step outside our comfort zone to truly live."—SAMANTHA VÉRANT, author of How to Make a French Family and Seven Letters from Paris

Reviews

Goodreads review by Christie

The Grape series is beautifully crafted. Food writing is woven into nearly every page. At some point I read Laura was encouraged to 'up' the food porn quotient in one of her books and she has taken that advice to heart. I enjoy wine, cheese and all fine food all the more because of her encouragement......more

Goodreads review by J.H.

There's something about Bradbury's knack for telling a good story that keeps me reading this series, even when I have issues with it. She excels at food porn, for one thing, which definitely helps when a book is set in France. After Grape Escape, I'd say this is my favourite--once again, Bradbury and......more

Goodreads review by Brigid

I felt a little sad reading the fifth and final book in this series. In "My Grape Village" we join the author and her husband Franck as they renovate their second property in rural Burgundy. This time they have two young daughters to settle in school, Laura needs to acquaint herself with the intrica......more

Goodreads review by Judith D. Stanford

Three down, many to go? Excellent series about living in rural France. Can't wait for further books in the series. Maybe now I can go get some sleep. These books kept me up late every night until there were no more. Well done, Laura.......more

Goodreads review by Martha

You can read the synopsis to see what the book, a memoir, is about. What did I like? Well, there is the food porn. Reading this story really makes me want to go to Burgundy to eat delicious food and wine. And cook. And buy some Burgundy wine at the local wine shop. And eat. But the story is much more......more