Driving Over Lemons
by:
Chris Stewart (author)
At seventeen, Chris Stewart retired as the drummer of Genesis and launched a career as a sheep-shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets about this. Had he become a big-time rock star he might never have moved with his wife Ana to a remote mountain farm in Andalucia. Nor forged the friendship...
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At seventeen, Chris Stewart retired as the drummer of Genesis and launched a career as a sheep-shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets about this. Had he become a big-time rock star he might never have moved with his wife Ana to a remote mountain farm in Andalucia. Nor forged the friendship of a lifetime with his resourceful peasant neighbor, Domingo, nor watched his baby daughter Chloe grow and thrive there. Fate does sometimes seem to know what it's up to. Driving Over Lemons is funny, insightful, and charms form beginning to end.
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ISBN:
9780965030366 (0965030369)
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Book Club,
Biography Memoir,
Spain
It's unavoidable making the comparison between this book and Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence. Both are memoirs by ex-Pat Brits of their relocation to bucolic parts of Southern Europe, both to be found in my neighborhood book store almost side-by-side under Travel Essays. A blurb from the Daily Tele...
I really enjoyed this book until the end...and then it just kind of stopped! I was like, what just happened?? But it was a fun look at this family's life in Spain.
Hah - how serendipitous. As dear M unfolds Stewart's laid back tales, dear Auntie gives us the fraudio.
Entered in diary from 2000
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