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Jacques Reda chooses the height of the plum-picking season to revisit - on an old motorbike - his home town in Lorraine, north-eastern France. The fragrant allure of mirabelles introduces a colourful mix of old acquaintances renewed in these five days and vividly remembered places that have shaped a lifetime's writing. With its reflections, often whimsical, on the passing of the years, and its varied motifs - the plums, the provincial stillness, the toy soldiers of his childhood, 'the astonishing existence of others' first discovered as a love-struck schoolboy - this has few rivals as a portrayal of town life in la France profonde, written with tenderness and humour.

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Memoirs

• Full title: Mirabelle Pickers, The
• Author: Jacques Reda
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9780856464492
• ISBN: 085646449X
• ID: 01249183
• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
• Weight: 128 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 131 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. October 2012

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