A warm, gently humorous memoir takes us back to Aquitaine and Bel-Air de Grezelongue, the house Ruth and her husband fell in love with twenty years earlier.

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Twenty years after first setting eyes on Bel-Air de Grèzelongue, her dream house in south-west France, the friendships that Ruth Silvestre and her family formed during the restoration of their once derelict farmhouse have deepened.

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This is the story of how Ruth Silvestre found Bel-Air de Grezelongue, a house that had been deserted and uninhabited for ten years, and fell in love with it. This charming, funny and romantic book is an absolute must for everyone who wants to fulfill their dreams of living abroad.

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A Bittersweet Return to the Idyllic South of France

Renovating their primitive, rural house in the south-west France was a labor of love for Ruth and her husband. Now they face their own personal tragedy, but through all their sorrows Bel-Air continues to be a place of hope and happiness, as well as extraordinary beauty.

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