Dick Strawbridge, Angel Strawbridge.
A Year at the Château.
Seven Dials. 2020
In this charming, uplifting and heart-warming memoir,
Dick and Angel Strawbridge recount their amazing first year
at Château-de-la-Motte Husson.
Dick and Angel had long dreamed of a life in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale château, complete with 45 rooms, 7 outbuildings, 12 acres of land and its own moat.
In the depths of winter Dick and Angel arrive to find bedrooms infested with flies, the wind rattling through windows and no electricity or working toilets. We follow them all the way through the year to their unforgettable wedding and special first Christmas in France.
As warm and entertaining as their much-loved show, A Year at the Château is a truly irresistible story of adventure and heart, epic ambitions and a huge amount of hard graft.