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| Deep France: A Writer's Year in the Bearn | 
 enlarge | Author: Celia Brayfield
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book
List Price: £7.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 187074
Media: Paperback
Pages: 372
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 4.9 x 1
ISBN: 0330411829
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9780330411820
ASIN: 0330411829
Publication Date: May 21, 2004
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 Thank you, thank you February 27, 2008
Thank you, thank you Celia Brayfield. This is the best book about living in France that I've read, and like many real gems I came across it by accident ... it was loaned to me by a friend of the owner. I really must buy my own copy to stop hers becoming any more dog-eared and to ensure thar I'll always have reference to the recipes, expressions and pieces of vital information that will help me now that I've bought my own little bit of France.
My only concern is that I can't give it 6 stars !!
 Dissapointing August 20, 2006
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a big fan of Celia Brayfield i gave this book a chance even though i'm not a big fan of reading real life events. However i was a little dissapointed and felt i'd wasted my money.
If you feel the need to read this please only buy it second hand as you won't feel done over when it goes in the bin!
I await her next novel.............
 Deeply pleasureable April 27, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fabulous recipes and even more pleasure to be had from shopping expeditions with the exotic expats she meets, the adventures or her eccentric cats - even some amusing statistics about hedgehogs. Its got the lot. Don't look any further for a book about France especially the Bearn - France's sunniest secret.
 Deep France - deep disappointment! February 14, 2006
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Celia Brayfield reminds the reader several times that she is a professional writer and a creative person. Well, she ought to write like one! I found this book self indulgent and much of the factual material bore a remarkable similarity to the Cadogan Guide to Gascony.
The Bearn area itself is wonderful but this book gives the impression that you have to be well-heeled and self satisfied to go there!
Simply Delicious August 23, 2004
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I just adored Celia Brayfield's book. Perhaps I should declare an interest here as I visited Celia during her stay in the Bearn - and thrilling though it was to potter around the region with her - reading Deep France was every bit as satisfactory. It is Celia's eye for detail and her glorious sense of humour - judiciously laced with irony that does it for me. Her love for France is self evident and it is the minutiae of the life - the food, the shopping, the archeitecture, the myths, the folk-lore and the everyday "stuff" - that brings the region alive as you turn the pages and the seasons swing by. You really should read it - even if you no intention of leaving these shores. Written with deep insight and deep affection, it truly brings alive Deep France.
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