- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (2 Feb 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099466678
- ISBN-13: 978-0099466673
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank:
308,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #80 in Books > Home & Garden > Gardening > Garden Styles > Water Features & Ponds
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'Lively, enhanting and deeply serious...Abounds in wonderful descriptions of her intimate relationships with plat-life, and in seascapes...Extremely funny' - Guardian. 'Hilarious, heartwarming and movingly honest. This is a book about self-exile and creation that only a poet could write' - Adam Thorpe. 'I loved the comments about English gardening as preposterous, and her ability to conjure so much out of so little without ever leaving her garden...truly wonderful' - Gerard Woodward. 'Lyrical and pithy, full of wry humour, yet weightier than most fat tomes, The Price of Water in Finistere is a book about the past and the state of the world we have created...I adored it' - Lisa Appignanesi.
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"Malmsten’s humour is wry and wise, her attitudes light and liberated, her resilience though and touching."
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I found this book by coincidence. I was captured by Bodil Malmstens love of words, language and her new homeland. I read it in small dozes. I think you have to to be able to really enjoy the carefully selected words, sentences and images.... A great example of good writing.
UG, Denmark
UG, Denmark
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book was given to me as a present and I just loved it. Bodil is a middle-aged woman who packs her car and moves in disgust from her native Sweden to the very West of France. She writes sparely, like a true poet, but with great humour about gardening, her terrible French and little daily events in her new village, but at heart there is so much more. The book is shot through with outrage at the modern world, the on-going pain of losing her father, her preparations for becoming an old lady and many, many other subjects. If you like the writings of Tove Janson, you will love this. I hope many other works by Bodil will be translated into English.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I adored this book. I laughed until I cried! A beautiful writer with a beautiful mind. I only wish that more of her books were translated into English from her native Swedish. I bought 3 copies so that I could give them to friends and never lend my own. Pure escapism. Suitable for gardeners, Francophiles or anyone who understands a need to express their passion in life and finally have the time to do it... if not on a budget! Buy it... buy 2!
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The Price of Water in Finistere
Didn't like the book much, not a humerous as I thought it would be but its OK I guess
Published on 21 Jan 2010 by BrianT
A Heroine called Finistere
This book is the jewel in the crown of the Travel/Foreigners abroad genre.Pure poetry is interspersed with the Swedish author's amusing experiences in settling on the south coast... Read more
Published on 24 Nov 2009 by Lilly Gill
Beautiful
I bought this book on a whim, and am very pleased that it found me! Her writing is, as others have said, sparse but vivid and the beautifully constructed sentences roll on the... Read more
Published on 28 July 2008 by S. Cooper
Claire from Cornwall
Bodil Malmsten writes sparingly but with depth. This middle aged lady leaves her home country and finds the place she is meant to be in Finistere in France and qualifies this "In... Read more
Published on 6 Dec 2007 by Moomin
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