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Escape to the French Farmhouse
Escape to the French Farmhouse
Oct 4, 2024 5:30 AM

Author:Jo Thomas,Anna Acton

Escape to the French Farmhouse

Brought to you by Penguin.

Can she find her recipe for happiness?

Del and her husband Ollie moved to a beautiful village in Provence for a fresh start after years of infertility struggles. But six weeks after they arrive, they’re packing the removal van once more. As Del watches the van leave for England, she suddenly realises exactly what will make her happier…a new life in France – without Ollie.

Now alone, all Del has is a crumbling farmhouse, a mortgage to pay and a few lavender plants. What on earth is she going to do? Discovering an old recipe book at the market run by the rather attractive Fabian, Del starts to bake. But can her new-found passion really help her let go of the past and lead to true happiness?

A heart-warming tale about reclaiming your life, set amongst the lavender fields of Provence. Perfect escapism from the author of Late Summer in the Vineyard and The Honey Farm on the Hill.

'Hopeful and lovely, sunny and smashing – I loved this gorgeous book' Milly Johnson

'A delicious summer read' Heidi Swain

'A warm story of friendship and community. A joy and a true escape'Phillipa Ashley

©Jo Thomas 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Reviews

A delicious summer read.

—— Heidi Swain

You smell the lavender, you feel the sun on your face, this book is pure joy!

—— Katie Fforde

Hopeful and lovely, sunny and smashing – I loved this gorgeous book.

—— Milly Johnson, Sunday Times bestselling author

Jo Thomas at her best - filled with love, food and real heart. Always welcome, particularly in challenging times, reading a Jo Thomas novel is like going on the loveliest holiday in your head.

—— AJ Pearce

This is the burst of sunshine you’re looking for! Evocative, warm, wonderful, transporting you to beautiful Provence...I loved it!

—— Miranda Dickinson

A warm story of friendship and community. A joy and a true escape.

—— Phillipa Ashley

Uplifting and full of warmth, this novel is the next best thing to jetting off to France on a relaxing break away.

—— My Weekly

A warm and evocative summer read.

—— CultureFly

A gorgeous summery read.

—— Best

A perfect beach read

—— Sunday Mail

Razor sharp and laugh-out-loud hilarious . . . the perfect antidote to our troubled times

—— Daily Express

Compelling, addictive with effortless wit and bite - gloriously connecting

—— Helen Lederer

A cracking comedy of manners

—— Richard and Judy Bookclub

Absolutely loved Queen Bee. Brilliant characters, funny, addictive and very clever. The perfect book to lose yourself in

—— Claire Douglas

Typical Fallon, written with wit and an after-sting

—— My Weekly

With its edgy wit, this sharp tale is full of characters you'll love to hate

—— Weight Watchers

Sharp and hilarious. A perfect beach read

—— Irish News

Praise for Jane Fallon

—— -

She's the queen of the revenge novel. Dramatic and engaging from the start, you won't want to put it down

—— Heat

Brilliant, with completely unexpected twists

—— Gill Sims , bestselling author of Why Mummy Drinks

Superbly taps into our inner Avenger. Hugely compelling and unpredictable

—— Ruth Jones , bestselling author of Never Greener

Compelling, edgy, beautifully written

—— Daily Mail

Intelligent, edgy and witty

—— Glamour

I LOVE her books. She always delivers a fabaliss read

—— Marian Keyes , bestselling author of Grown-Ups

Barbed, twisty and full of deliciously dry wit, this is smart stuff to race through

—— Sunday Mirror

This entertainingly twisty tale is populated with some enjoyably toxic characters

—— Sunday Mirror

Chick lit with an edge

—— Guardian

Sparkling and unpredictable

—— Elle

Darkly comic and addictive

—— Daily Express

Another sure-fire hit from Fallon

—— Platinum

Set over the course of an upstate New York summer, this shrewd, kindly tale embraces a topical spread of inter-generational challenges, yielding tart truths about love, class and family. It's spry and satisfying

—— Mail on Sunday

A warm, funny novel

—— SheerLuxe

If you can imagine a glorious mash-up of Elizabeth Strout and Gilmore Girls, All Adults Here is it

—— Red

Set over the course of an upstate New York summer, this shrewd, kindly tale embraces a topical spread of inter-generational challenges, yielding tart truths about love, class and family. It's spry and satisfying.

—— Mail on Sunday

A novel full of poignant insights into family

—— Woman & Home

If you're a fan of Anne Tyler's writing, you'll love this captivating, well-observed family drama

—— Good Housekeeping

Busting with witty and poignant observations about the messiness of family

—— Jenna Bush Hager , Read with Jenna Book Club Pick

Emma Straub has done it again! All Adults Here introduces us to the Stricks, a delightfully flawed family, with matriarch Astrid at the centre...I know I've been having trouble adulting during this time (seriously, I have to cook, again?!), and the characters in this novel feel like they're struggling right alongside me

—— Read It Forward

All Adults Here will make you question your entire childhood

—— Marie Claire US

All Adults Here is deliciously funny and infectiously warm - a clever blend of levity and poignant insights. Straub's flair for irony and wit shine, and she puts a fresh (and progressive) spin on the age-old multigenerational family saga

—— Washington Post

The queen of the summer novel...we have turned to Emma Straub to bring us highly enjoyable, yet still thought-provoking, tales about witty protagonists in the throes of life changes

—— Entertainment Weekly

Straub's novel takes her signature wit upstate, exploring the complexities of small-town life and what it's
like to live as an adult in the same place where you grew up

—— Deadline

If you've spent lockdown at home with the family, this one might just ring true for you. A witty, warm and thoroughly entertaining novel. Relatable

—— Luxe

It takes rare skill to make everyday family ups and downs so pleasurable to read but Straub brings both a deceptive light touch and a flinty sense of humour to this breezy big-hearted portrait of ordinary people trying to negotiate the landscape of being a grown up. A superior slice of domestic fiction for fans of Anne Tyler and Ann Patchett

—— Metro

Pulsating with perceptive wit . . . entertaining

—— Sunday Post

Great for fans of Liane Moriarty

—— Harpers Bazaar

Whips along with feel-good momentum, driven by warmth and love

—— Press Association

Warm, witty, perceptive. Anne Tyler on laughing gas

—— Saga Magazine

Written with true warmth and wit

—— Bella

Praise for Emma Straub

—— -

It's the beautifully drawn, vibrant characters that make this smart, compelling novel so irresistible

—— Liane Moriarty

Funny, poignant and beautifully observed

—— Jojo Moyes

Straub writes beautifully and amusingly . . . hard to beat for sheer charm and gentle wit

—— Daily Mail

Smart and entertaining

—— Stylist

Hugely talented . . . intelligent holiday reading

—— Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4

Warm and big-hearted . . . leaves you smiling for days

—— Maria Semple , bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette

Straub writes with such verve and sympathetic understanding of her characters . . . Reading this novel has all the pleasures of reading one of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits

—— New York Times

A funny and insightful look at love and relationships

—— Good Housekeeping

Written with true warmth and wit

—— Bella

A smart, cool sensibility

—— Elle

Lovely, satisfying

—— EW.com

Smart and fresh, offering new insights into the lives of people all around us

—— Brooklyn Magazine

Thoughtful and hilarious

—— Real Simple

It would be easy to compare Straub to other masters of the genre like Meg Wolitzer or Jennifer Egan, but she's already a master in her own right

—— The Millions

Wise and often hilarious

—— Buzzfeed

Readers will devour this witty and warmly satisfying novel

—— Publishers Weekly

A precise and observant writer whose supple prose carries the story along without a snag. Straub's characters are a quirky and interesting bunch . . . it's a pleasure spending time with them

—— Starred Review , Kirkus

Devilishly observed

—— Starred Review , Booklist

Sprinkled with humour and insight

—— Starred Review , Library Journal

Straub is consistently excellent

—— Book Riot

A warm-hearted and wise tale of a family in trouble. Packed full of sharp observations and laugh-out-loud lines

—— i

Her writing just gets better and better . . . Grown Ups is funny and clever in the way it tackles addiction and eating disorders and the hurly burly of family life

—— Waitrose Weekend

A sharp satire of family dynamics and the trappings of wealth. It is a delicious thing - light and dark at once, full of acid observations and warmth, and fully attuned to the absurdities of familial life

—— The Gentleman's Journal

An entertaining story of family dynamics packed with vibrant characters, humour and empathy

—— The Sunday Times

A sharp, wry tale about a seemingly happy family with contemporary problems . . . despite the traumas, you'll whizz through it with a smile on your face

—— Oxfordshire Limited Edition

Keyes's captivating 14th novel tackles difficult issues with a sparkling style that makes it impossible to put down

—— Daily Mail

Marian Keyes is the most wonderful writer. She just gets better and better. She is a writer who believes in the best of us. She shows people's foibles but she also shows the love that binds us together in a very real way

—— Richard Osman

Her novels tackle hard subjects with such humour and warmth its impossible not to be drawn in

—— Jane Harper , Daily Mail

Another high-definition family comedy. An intoxicating, effervescent and warm look at modern life

—— Metro

A delightful and insightful examination of the modern family

—— Holly Bourne , Beastmag

Laughter and tears intertwine, as ever, in the latest from our leading chronicler of the emotional messiness of contemporary life

—— Guardian

The strength of this book lies in its relatability factor - I laughed, cried, nodded in recognition and laughed again

—— Irish News

Shines a light on the frustrations and gripes of family life, while inviting us to laugh at the petty reality of it all

—— London Living

A book to fall into and while away hours with

—— Writers Online

Funny, thought-provoking and hitting you right in the feels, Marian Keyes does it again

—— Red Online

I loved this complex family drama . . . Keyes nails every character she touches while keeping it all so relevant

—— Jamie Klingler , iNews

Praise for Marian Keyes

—— -

Mercilessly funny

—— The Times

Everything this woman touches turns to comic gold

—— Cosmopolitan

Comic, convincing and true. The warmth and empathy of Keyes's writing shine through this tale of family secrets revealed.

—— Katy Guest , Guardian

Clever, hilarious, poignant . . . Gloriously funny

—— Sunday Times

Wildly funny, romantic and nearly impossible to put down

—— Daily Mail

Her writing is a lovely mixture of funny and perceptive and bittersweet

—— Cressida Cowell

Full of brilliantly funny characters, genuine emotion and heaps of charm

—— Heat

Her books are humorous and have the quality of a warm bath

—— The Times

Classic Marian Keyes: a blizzard of wit and wisecracks

—— The Times

Keyes is an international treasure. The ultimate choice for a binge read

—— Stylist

When it comes to writing page-turners that put a smile on your face and make you think, Keyes is in a class of her own

—— Daily Express

Fabulously entertaining. The queen of intelligent women's fiction

—— Sunday Mirror

Full of darkness and light, this is Keyes at her classic and most brilliant best

—— Red

Keyes writes about women who are absolutely themselves, even when society tries to insist they are something else

—— Irish Times

Glorious, life-affirming

—— Woman & Home

Marian's glorious, warm-hearted wit is always guaranteed to make me laugh on the very first page

—— Liane Moriarty

There is no finer writer than Marian Keyes

—— Rowan Coleman

She really is unparalleled when it comes to making serious points with the lightest of touches

—— The Pool

Hilariously wise

—— Prima

Brutal yet endearing honesty, wonderful humour and astonishing acumen

—— Ruth Hogan

Keyes writes extremely well about modern women. Candid and deeply felt

—— Metro

Marian Keyes has an unparalleled talent for making you howl with laughter, nod in recognition and think at the same time

—— Sam Baker , Good Housekeeping

Always brilliant - and brilliantly funny

—— Best

A publishing sensation

—— Daily Express

There are few fiction writers today with as much verve and sense of independence as Marian Keyes

—— Daily Telegraph
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