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Ein Abenteuer in Frankreich, ist der Neubeginn, den sie braucht!Nach zehn Jahren in ihrem Job wurde Lily Butterworth entlassen. Wie jede kluge Frau weiß sie, dass das Heilmittel gegen die Entlassung ein bisschen zu viel Wein und ihre beste Freundin sind. Doch am nächsten Morgen hat Lily nicht nur einen Kater, sondern auch ein neues Haus - in Frankreich! Sie sieht das als Chance und freut sich darauf, endlich dorthin zu ziehen, so wie sie und ihr Mann es sich erträumt haben. Doch Lily erlebt eine Überraschung. Obwohl sie es seit über 20 Jahren planen, hatte ihr Mann Ben nie die Absicht, es wirklich zu tun. So beginnt ihr Abenteuer in Frankreich, allein, mit der Renovierung des alten Bauernhauses, das von zerschlissenen Tapeten und Wünschen zusammengehalten wird. Wird ein Jahr im französischen Bauernhaus genau das sein, was Lily braucht? Oder könnte der frühere Besitzer, Frederique, die Antwort auf Lilys Träume sein?

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Click: buy... a French chateau. Condition: 'may require improvement'...It seemed like a good idea. Selling everything we own. Just Mark and I, swapping our tiny little terraced London home - and the heartbreak of not being able to start a family - for an entire chateau in the middle of France... This has always been our dream. And now it's coming true.As I use the rusty key to open the big, creaking wooden door of the tumbledown fairytale chateau that's officially our new home, I wonder: what could possibly go wrong?Turns out my grasp of the language isn't brilliant - and I've realised too late that I should really have got fluent before emigrating. But it turns out that the answer is 'le tout'. In other words, 'everything' than can go wrong, will...Will our marriage survive this adventure? With all the tumbling masonry, will we?As the French sun blazes overhead, one thing's for sure: it's going to be a year to remember... (lib)

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