| | A Normandy Tapestry: A Portrait of Rural France |  | Author: Alan Arthur Biggins
Publisher: Kirkdale Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 139798
Media: Paperback
Edition: 4Rev Ed
Pages: 196
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0952314924
Dewey Decimal Number: 646
EAN: 9780952314929
ASIN: 0952314924
Publication Date: February 3, 2003
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Condition: Light cover wear, mark to the top edges of some pages
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 Brilliant! November 28, 2000
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a rollicking good tale with stacks of fun and personal failures & triumphs. It is easy to read with plenty of atmosphere and history seen through the eyes of one of our best descriptive authors - at least I think so!
 Normandy Tapestry - A portrait of rural France September 17, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I first met Alan Biggins over a decade and a half ago ago when we briefly worked in the same office. He is a very down to earth person and this comes over strongly in this book, which records some of his experiences when living in Normandy in the late eighties. One can't but help make a comparison with "A year in Provence" as that is the most famous book about an Englishman living in France. However the Peter Mayle book has been constructed as a novel with story lines running right through it and written by someone from the advertising world, on the other hand Normandy Tapestry is written in plain English and provides a good feel for living in Northern France in the late Eighties. Normany Tapestry has two overlapping themes, the first is about village life in rural France as experienced by the Biggins household and the second is about the history of Normandy from the earliest days through to the second world war. This book is an excellent book for anyone visiting Northern France on holiday and perhaps more importantly it should be a compulsory read for anyone wanting to go and live in France.
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