Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist In Andalucia by Chris Stewart

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A dreamer and an itinerant sheep shearer, he moves with his wife Ana to a mountain farm in Las Alpujarras, an oddball region in the south of Spain. Misadventures gleefully unfold a s Chris discovers that the owner had no intention of leaving. He meets their neighbours, an engaging mix of farmers, shepherds and New Age travellers, and their daughter Chloe is born, linking them irrevocably to their new life. The hero of the piece, however, is the farm itself - a patch of mountain studded with olive, almond and lemon groves, sited on the wrong side of a river, with no access road, water supply or electricity. Could life offer much better than that? Special Anniversary Edition (with new chapter 25 years on). This 2020 Sort of Books Paperback is in very good condition. ISBN: 9781908745859 SKU: 1568148 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. Show more