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Fed up with the rat race? Dreaming of a simpler life? A better life? A GOOD LIFE? Since the 1990's hundreds of thousands of people left it all behind and moved to France. Are you dreaming about moving to France to live a simpler, rural life; perhaps on a smallholding or simply in the countryside? Then THIS is the book for YOU. This practical and up to date book will lead you through the many questions you may have including: * How Brexit will affect you * Owning animals or setting up a smallholding in France * Finding and securing the right property * Starting a rural business. Benefit from Lorraine Turnbull's own experience and read the case studies from real people who have moved to live the Good Life in various areas of France. It's a big step to a brave new world and this timely book aims to help you in your journey to your Good Life in France. Lorraine is an award-winning smallholder and former cider maker who relocated to rural France in 2017.

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A really enjoyable and thoughtful book, I was so interested I read this in one day. It covered a multitude of topics to be considered if you want to make the move across the channel. The format was relaxed and easy going while being insightful and informative. We will certainly benefit from this book of that I am sure when we start to research and look for our property in France. Information from taxes to sheep and geese. Brilliant! Darren Townsend An absolute 'must buy' for anyone seriously thinking of moving to live in the French countryside. Brexit ready and full of information and best of all written by someone who has actually done it. Brian McMillan

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Lorraine Turnbull was born in Glasgow where she lived until 2015 when she and her family moved to a run-down bungalow and smallholding with an Agricultural Occupancy Condition on it in Cornwall. She retrained as a horticultural tutor and also worked as a Skills Co-ordinator for The Rural Business School. To turn her failing smallholding around she began commercial cider making in 2011 and until recently ran a profitable small craft cider business. In 2014 she was recognised for her contribution to sustainable living by winning the Cornwall Sustainability Awards Best Individual category. She has previously written occasional articles for Country Smallholding and Smallholder magazines and after successfully removing the Agricultural Occupancy Condition on her home she relocated to a smallholding in France. She is the author of The Sustainable Smallholders Handbook (2019) and How to Live the Good Life in France (2020). She is currently completing her third book: a Cornish smallholding memoir.

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