<p>This is the sequel to "Perfume from Provence", chronicling further happenings during the l930s in Provence, where Lady Fortescue and her husband converted an old stone farmhouse into a graceful and idyllic home. For two years after Sir John's death, Lady Fortescue - still a comparatively young woman - continued to live there, but was not altogether happy. Then, visiting a friend, she came across a small, near-derelict house set amidst thickets of wild lavender, magenta gladioli and trailing sweet peas. She fell instantly in love with it, and thus began a new and happy chapter of her life. With the help of her friend and neighbour, "Mademoiselle", she set about trying to purchase the property from a complicated and cunning mafia of locals - and then, once again, she began the heartwarming, frustrating, funny and delightful process of transforming a small Provencal cottage into a home, and creating a garden down the side of the mountain. She call the cottage "Sunset House".</p>

Sunset House

Fortescue, Lady

Transworld Publishers, Ltd

Lady Fortescue achieved fame in 1935 following the publication of "Perfume from Provence", telling of the life that she and her husband enjoyed in France. The book also offered glimpses of what had gone before, and eventually, after her husband's death, Lady Fortescue wrote the story of her whole life - and in particular of her meeting and marriage with Sir John Fortescue. This is that nostalgic re-creation of another era, of her excitement as an actress before World War I, of her meeting with the man she was to marry, and of their first home together in Windsor Castle during the reign of King George V and Queen Mary.

There's Rosemary, There's Rue

Biographies & Memoirs

Return To Sunset House

Historical

Isis Large Print

Beauty For Ashes

The original story of falling for France, first published in 1935 Winifred Fortescue was an actress who rubbed shoulders with the likes of Jerome K. Jerome and George Bernard Shaw when she married Sir John Fortescue, the king's librarian and archivist and famous historian of the British Army. Tempted by a better climate and the cheaper cost of living, they left England and found a stone house amid olive groves, high in the hills above Nice. Almost at once they were bewitched by the landscape and especially their garden—delightful terraces of vines, wild flowers, roses, and lavender—and by the charming, warm-hearted, and wily Provençals. Winifred's witty account of life with stonemasons, craftsmen, and gardeners as they extend the house is an enchanting read.

Perfume from Provence

Summersdale

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