Perfume from Provence

by Winifred Fortescue and Lady Fortescue

Book Overview

In the early 1930s, Lady Winifred Fortescue and her husband left their native England to settle in Provence, the legendary region of France along the Mediterranean. Perfume from Provence is the story of their renovation of their new home, of their involvement with stonemasons, craftsmen and gardeners, and their life in a quaint village. 40 illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688125824
• ISBN13: 9780688125820
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Maybe her best.......

and that's awfully good. If only video cameras had been around during her time. If you google her you will find a great site dedicated to her and her writings.

Charming is the only word

This is a pleasurable, surprising, sunshine-filled, leisurely, and -- dare I say it again -- charming book. It's a little dated, but retains its wonderful capacity to evoke a time and place filled with the sights, scents, and sounds of stone masons, oil presses, village fetes, kitchen knives, bursting gardens, market days, voluble peasants, and one indomitable Fiat.

Charming--leaves you homesick for Provence

This is a charming and thoroughly engaging book. Lady Winifred describes the trials and tribulations of an English couple who move to Provence in the 30s. Her descriptions of the people and the area are so vivid that by the end of the book you feel as if you, too, live in Provence. When I finished the book, I felt homesick and wanted to return as soon as possible!