Tout Sweet

In her mid thirties, fashion editor Karen Wheeler has it all; a handsome boyfriend a fab flat in West London and an array of gorgeous shoes.  But when Eric leaves, she hangs up her Manolos and waves goodbye to her glamorous city lifestyle to go it alone in a run-down house in rural Poituou-Charentes, central western France.

Acquiring a host of new friends and unsuitable suitors, she learns that true happiness can be found in the simplest of things - a bike ride through the countryside on a summer evening, or a kir or three evening in a neighbour's courtyard.

Perfect summer reading for anyone who dreams of chucking away their BlackBerry in favour of real blackberrying and downshifting to France.

Karen Wheeler is a former fashion editor for the Mail on Sunday and currently writes for the Financial Times How to Spend It magazine and the Daily Mail.  Her work has appeared in ES and You magazines, Sunday Times Style and numerous international magazines.

Find out more about Karen Wheeler at www.karenwheeler.co.uk and more about her book on her blog website www.toutsweet.net

You can also read an interview with Karen Wheeler at www.atasteofgarlic.com/interview-writer/the-karen-wheeler-interview/#more-1040

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Julian Leigh has written this historical novel combining the lives of a young RAF pilot and an 18th Century Naval officer.

All profits are donated to Sightsavers International Bangladesh project.  For every four books that are sold one child born with double cataracts will have their sight saved.