One day in late summer Michael Wright gave up his comfortable South London existence & with only his long-suffering cat for company set out to begin a new life. His destination was La Folie a dilapidated 15th century farmhouse in need of love & renovation in the heart of rural France... Inspired by the success of his column in the Daily Telegraph" about La Folie this book is his winningly honest account of his struggle to fulfil a childhood dream & become a Real Man
- to make the journey from social townie to rugged solitary paysan. & in chronicling his enthusiastic attempts at looking after livestock & coming to terms with the concept of living Abroad Alone the author discovers what it takes to be a man at the beginning of the 21st century especially if one is short sighted flat footed & not very good at games. Life-affirming laugh out loud funny (and boasting more than its fair share of larger-than-life locals bilingual chickens diminutive but over-sexed sheep invisible rodents manly power tools with unpronounceable names plus the occasional femmes fatale) this tale of a new-found life in France with a cat a piano & an aeroplane is both an elegy for a world thats fast disappearing as a hymn to the simple pleasures of being alive."