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Be prepared to laugh out loud at the foibles of humankind as Leslie AnnBosher exchanges her treasured city life for unremitting open space in thiswryly-written story of a naturalised Brit who reluctantly decides to makeroom in her closet for a pair of Wellington boots beside her stilettos.For Leslie Ann, an American-born London resident, a cozy pied-à-terre inParis seems the perfect antidoteto England¹s cadaver-grey winter days thatis until her husband Bill announces he has other plans involving gaseouscows, horsy women with beefy thighs and a converted seventeenth-centurymanor house. Moving from city chic to country khaki, Leslie Ann soonascertains that having a conversation with a barnyard horse can be just assatisfying as a



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soothing facial. Peeling off the veneer, she examinescontemporary topics from Botox to the BBC, political correctness to TheNational Health Service, and fox hunting to fashion, supplying an engagingmix of characters and experiences along the way. Her observant descriptionof life outside London is informed and infectiously entertaining. Despitechuckles from friends and their collective bleat, 'You'll be back,' she hasremained firmly planted in Rutland and has written an entertaining accountof the complexities and beguiling oddities of life in England. More honestthan Bridget Jones's Diary, less ceremonious than the Prime Minister'sspeeches, her story reflects the fact that choices always have consequenceseven if you are To the MANOR drawn.