When Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France, recently emptied of 150 years of a family\'s possessions, she uncovered the obscure and moving life of one woman, Celestine Chaumette.
This is Tindall\'s brilliantly original recreation of the vanished world of a French village..
When Gillian Tindall discovered a cache of tightly folded letters in a deserted house in central France, recently emptied of 150 years of a family\'s possessions, she uncovered the obscure and moving life of one woman, Celestine Chaumette