One Place de l’Eglise
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  • Published: 21 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241608678
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $18.00
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One Place de l’Eglise

A Year in Provence for the 21st century

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Paperback
6 Jun 2023
EBook
9 Jun 2022
Audiobook
21 Jul 2022
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A joyous and life-affirming story of one family's move from London to a rural French village

There it stands, a thousand-year-old ruin ignored by the Languedoc villagers of Causses-et-Veyran who pass by it on their way to the church next door. But for Londoners Trevor and Kaz it's coup de foudre - love at first sight - and they buy One Place de L'Eglise.

Over the years they turn the house into a home. They navigate the language (apparently préservatif's are not something put in sausages), floods and freezing winters. They make friends and encounter heartbreak. And eventually they find their place - their bar, their baker, their builder (ignore him at your peril).

One Place de L'Eglise is a love letter - to a house, a village, a country - from an outsider who discovers you can never be a stranger in a place that your heart calls home.
  • Published: 21 July 2022
  • ISBN: 9780241608678
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $18.00
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About the author

Trevor Dolby

Trevor Dolby spent thirty-five years riding his luck publishing and editing books. When he was promoted beyond his talents he bought a house in France. He now lives in the Languedoc and London fending off visitors.

Praise for One Place de l’Eglise

A timeless story of what it is that makes France irresistible

Michael Palin

Elegant, captivating, and sprinkled with self-deprecating humour. Dolby is a writer of abundant talent.

Peter Kerr, author of Snowball Oranges

Wonderful. Exquisitely written, it is by turns laugh-out-loud funny then suddenly, unexpectedly and profoundly moving, wistful and touching: a homage to a place, to magical moments in time. An utter joy and a treat to read from the first to last pages

James Holland, author of Brothers in Arms

An unashamed love letter to France from someone who deeply admires the country

UK Time News

He writes with genuine emotion . . . He writes beautifully about life in a French village. The most enjoyable parts of this book are his descriptions of the French countryside

Daily Mail
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