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Reflections of Sunflowers by: Ruth Silvestre List Price: £8.99 City Travel Guides Price: £6.99 You Save: £2.00 (22%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 944.718083092 EAN: 9780749083458 ISBN: 074908345X Label: Allison & Busby Manufacturer: Allison & Busby Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: August 01, 2004 Publisher: Allison & Busby Studio: Allison & Busby Sales Rank: 263090 Related Items:
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 Rating: - The nicest of allThe 3 books in this trilogy are outstanding....possibly because Ruth's lovely nature shines through, she seems a very sweet woman. The lives of her family and neighbours are so sympathetically written, sometimes humourous and occasionally sad and the setting of the books is clearly portrayed. [The nearest to these books is C'est la Folie by Michael Wright, another sweet natured person and very funny description of French living!] Rating: - The best - and saddest - yetRuth Silvestre's third book continues to describe France with warmth and love and very differently from other either over-cynical or patronising stories of how someone bought their house in the sun. This one, the last of a trilogy, finishes sadly but,if you've read the others (and you should!) then you'll see that the ending, sad but hopeful, is just what one would have expected from this lovely, real saga. I don't think anyone has been able to describe the real France as well as Ruth Silvestre: she sees it's faults as well as it's lovely,earthy values with wonderful clarity, is easy and enjoyable to read without being over-simplistic and leaves you hoping that this will not be the last book about Belair and Mike and Ruth....and the sons ... Read More: |
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