A Year at the Chateau & Living the Château Dream By Dick Strawbridge, Angel Strawbridge 2 Books Collection Set Paperback – 29 October 2021

A Year at the Chateau & Living the Château Dream By Dick Strawbridge, Angel Strawbridge 2 Books Collection Set:

A Year at the Chateau:
Sharing their full journey for the first time, A Year at the Château follows Dick and Angel from when they first moved to France in the depths of winter and found bedrooms infested with flies, turrets inhabited by bats, the wind rattling through cracked windows, and just one working toilet, which flushed into the moat, through to the monumental efforts that went into readying the château for their unforgettable wedding and their incredibly special first Christmas. Along the way we will read glorious descriptions of rural life in France, with charming characters, delicious food and wonderful seasonal produce, in conjunction with the odd list of renovations and restorations Dick and Angel completed, many of which have been never shown on TV.

Living the Château Dream:
In January 2015 Dick and Angel Strawbridge embarked at the journey of a life-time when they swapped their cosy two-bedroom flat in East London for a derelict château with 12 acres of land in the Loire valley.Where Sunday Times bestseller A Year At The Château told the entertaining and heartwarming beginning of the circle of relatives’s French adventure, as they found their eternally home and started to restore and renovate the dilapidated castle, Living The Château Dream is about the years of hard graft that followed. Dick and Angel leapt into action transforming Château-de-la-Motte Husson into both a thriving circle of relatives home and a sustainable business, and started making their dream of rural life in a fairytale castle a reality.