Beauty for Ashes (Isis Reminiscence Series)

In the early 1930s Winifred Fortescue and her husband Sir John settled in Provence, in a small stone house amidst olive groves. Almost at once they were bewitched by the scenery, by their garden - a terraced landscape of vines, wild flowers, roses and lavender - and by the charming, infuriating, warm-hearted and wily Provencals. When exiled from Provence by the Second World War, she returned to England and joined the Red Cross in order to be useful. With her distinctive and spirited manner, Lady Fortescue brings alive a changing world in this book packed with incident, atmosphere and above all hope.