C'est La Folie by Michael Wright

I often find books in Oxfam that describe an Englishman's escape to a rural idyll/derelict farmhouse in France. Such is my love of France, I read them all, but apart from Patricia Atkinson's struggle to create a vineyard in the Dordogne, am often disappointed. Michael Wright's book was much more interesting. Although I have never read his columns in The Telegraph, I felt I knew him and warmed to his writing style, like Nigel Slater's, and have ordered the sequel to find out what happens next. He has become, in his own words, 'the kind of person who, through the way he or she lives their life - bravely and simply and openly - can somehow be a force for good'.