Dimensions
126 x 198 x 23mm
The Life of a French Countrywoman
Emilie Carles was born in 1900 into a poor peasant community in the High Alps of southeastern France. Against the odds, she trained as a teacher and pursued this career alongside farming and bringing up a family. An ardent pacifist all her life, in later years she became a fierce environmental campaigner and successfully protected her home, the idyllic Claree valley, from the hands of developers.
'A Wild Herb Soup', Emilie Carles' invigorating autobiography, tells of a world that has largely disappeared, capturing the comedy and the ferocious pride of rural life with an ebullience and wit which are quite irresistible.
