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Tamlyn Currin

Tamlyn Currin

Thursday 4 January 2018

These three very different autobiographies from three totally different lives have two things in common: relentless hard work, and exhaustion. Is it worth it? More reviews in Book reviews 2017 – a guide.

Glass Half Full
The ups and downs of vineyard life in France
Caro Feely
Published by Summersdale
ISBN 9781849539913
£10, $14 (also available in digital format)

This is Caro Feely’s fourth book, and her third autobiographical account of their family’s life-changing decision to leave tech and finance jobs in Ireland and buy a vineyard in south-west France. The first two books, Grape Expectations and Saving...

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