Books About France

I first became aware of Karen Wheeler when I stumbled across her Blog, Tout Sweet, last summer while surfing the web for items connected to rural France.

This was just prior to the publication of her first book, also entitled Tout Sweet, which I read as soon as it was available.

I was instantly drawn into Karen’s story of how she relocated to a village in the Poitou-Charentes and started building a new life there.

With the publication of her second book, Toute Allure, the story continues and, as well as the familiar characters, we are also introduced to new ones such as the stuck up Annabelle and her two

We learn about Karen‘s introduction to “le danse country” and also what it’s like to have a group of Portuguese builders move in next door and disturb her tranquility.

Karen has an easy writing style that manages to draw the reader into her idyllic rural lifestyle which is described in such a witty, funny and entertaining way that it makes you feel part of it.

Overall this is much more than just a sequel and is a well written, entertaining story of living the simple life in the French countryside.

Ray D - 28/09/2010