Claudine's House

Colette's irresistible depiction of a childhood in rural France, in a lush new translation I will never be able to help anyone imagine the splendour, bound up in my memories Claudine lives in a large house with a rose-filled garden and a vegetable patch smelling of tomato leaves and apricots. Beyond it is the village, where travelling performers stop for the night and wedding feasts take place un...