The Innkeeper’s Daughter
Claire Harman, 16 November 1995
Célestine: Voices from a French Village
by Gillian Tindall.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 286 pp., £17.99, April 1995,1 85619 534 1 Show More
by Gillian Tindall.
Sinclair-Stevenson, 286 pp., £17.99, April 1995,
“... A batch of seven letters caused this book to be written: six love-letters and one letter home from a brother in the Army. They are the only remaining personal papers of a French-woman called Célestine Chaumette, and Gillian Tindall found them in an otherwise almost empty house in the village of Chassignolles in Central France, where she and her family have had a summer home for more than twenty years ... ”