Jeremy Clarke Jeremy Clarke

Low life | 22 March 2018

The NHS threw the kitchen sink at it and the southern sun seems to have done the rest

issue 24 March 2018

During the past three years I have spent quite a bit of time in a rented house in Provence. Volets Bleus is a rectangular breeze-block bungalow perched on the side of a hill. In front of it is a tiled south-facing terrace resting on concrete pillars. The terrace looks over the tops of the trees that grow out of the valley floor, and further out over a commercial vineyard, and then to a distant line of oak-forested hills.

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