Driving Over Lemons #01: An Optimist in Andalucia

Driving Over Lemons #01: An Optimist in Andalucia
Chris Stewart
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 304pg
4 Jun 2020 UK
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9781908745859
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Meet Chris Stewart, the eternal optimist. At age 17 Chris retired as the drummer of Genesis and launched a career as a sheep shearer and travel writer. He has no regrets about this. Had he become a big-time rock star he might never have moved with his wife Ana to a remote mountain farm in Andalucia. Nor forged the friendship of a lifetime with his resourceful peasant neighbour Domingo ...nor watched his baby daughter Chloe grow and thrive there ...nor written this book. Fate does sometimes seem to know what it's up to. "Driving Over Lemons" is a book book that makes running a peasant farm in Spain seem like a distinctly good move. Chris transports us to Las Alpujarras, an oddball region south of Granada, and into a series of misadventures with an engaging mix of peasant farmers and shepherds, New Age travellers and ex-pats. The hero of the piece, however, is the farm that he and Ana bought, El Valero - a patch of mountain studded with olive, almond and lemon groves, sited on the wrong side of a river, and with no access road, water supply or electricity.

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When an author is as modest and humorous as this, his story cannot be told too often. -- Elizabeth Buchan The Times Exquisite ... in Driving Over Lemons the anecdote flourishes once more. -- Penelope Lively Daily Telegraph
Chris Stewart prepared for life on a mountain farm in Spain with jobs of doubtful relevance. After leaving Genesis (he drummed on the first album), he joined a circus, learnt how to shear sheep, crewed a yacht in Greece, went to China for the Rough Guides, gained a pilot's license in Los Angeles, and completed a course in French cking. Since writing Driving Over Lemons, Chris, Ana and their daughter Chloe continue to live on their farm, with their numerous dogs, cats, chickens, sheep and one misanthropic parrot.
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ISBN-13: 9781908745859
Published: 4 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Sort of Books
Publisher: Sort of Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 304

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