Last Tango in Toulouse – Mary Moody
The year of her fiftieth birthday, gardening writer Mary Moody ran away from home, family and work for six months to live in a remote French village. They were six months that turned the rest of her life upside down, as she bought a house in the village, persuaded her husband to sell the family home of twenty-five years and take up goose farming, and abandoned her television career in favour of writing about her travelling experiences. Mary Moody is a prolific gardening author and television presenter. Her books include A Gardener's Companion and Mary Moody's Roses. Every year Mary leads treks to the Himalayas and other parts of the world to observe native flora. She divides her time between her homes in Australia and south-west France. Her follow up, Last Tango in Toulouse, will be published under the Pier 9 imprint in September 2007. Both of these have been international bestsellers. |
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The year of her fiftieth birthday, gardening writer Mary Moody ran away from home, family and work for six months to live in a remote French village. They were six months that turned the rest of her life upside down, as she bought a house in the village, persuaded her husband to sell the family home of twenty-five years and take up goose farming, and abandoned her television career in favour of writing about her travelling experiences. Yet, even these dramatic events were merely the outward sign of far deeper changes. To her surprise, Mary found herself grappling with the intense emotion of an affair, and its consequences to her marriage and family. Her account of this fraught subject is frank, honest and painful, just as her and her husband's responses to it are moving and inspirational. |
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Expat Tales | Keith Eckstein June 19, 2010