French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France

Richard Goodman and his girlfriend rent a house in the south of France for a year. After a few months, he finds that he is not connecting with others, and he is inspired to make a garden. Unexpectedly, he becomes passionate about caring for the garden, visiting it twice a day, and, through the garden, he befriends others in the small village.

Odd little story about this book: I found a copy of this book many years ago, and I Bookcrossed it in December of 2007. I never got around to reading it, and I purged it from my shelves by donating it to a resale shop in my town when I cleared out eight shelves of books I'd never read. It is well-known among my friends and family that I love France, and, a few years later, my sister-in-law, who loves to shop resale shops for books, gave me this book as a little birthday present, not even seeing the BC label on it, not realizing that it was me who had BCed it. I simply had to read it when it was returned to me like this.