The Price of Water in Finistere

The Price of Water in Finistere





At just the point when most sensible people are settling into the routines of middle age, a fiercely independent woman abandons her home for a new life in France.

"In the same way as there’s a partner for every person, there’s a place. All you have to do is find the one that’s yours among the billions that belong to someone else." With this conviction in mind, Swedish writer Bodil Malmsten abandons her native country at the age of fifty-five and settles in Brittany. At the heart of this memoir is the conviction that the happiness to be found in Finistère will not allow itself to be expressed in writing. Embroidered around this seeming paradox are poignant, outraged, thought-provoking observations on a sweeping range of subjects: the elicit pleasures of bargain-hunting, the misery of writer’s block, social democracy, racism, tulipomania, the controlling of moles and slugs, death, and the delights of wild weather. Malmsten’s passion and humor shine through every episode, however minor, offering the reader a window onto a solitary life at once touching and hilarious.









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