Mademoiselle Benoir（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　Christine Conrad’s charming and spirited novel offers a fresh
look at life’s pleasures in the French countryside.
Thirty-something American Tim Reinhart leaves New York and
purchases a farmhouse in rural France, where he fills his days
restoring the property and pursuing his artistic passion. Letters
to his family and friends back home vividly illustrate Tim’s
blissful immersion in the divine meals, deep-rooted customs, and
quirky community of his new pastoral surroundings. But his
enchantment grows more complicated when he befriends another artist
— his beautiful and much older neighbor, Catherine Benoir. As
their relationship escalates, tensions run high on both sides of
the Atlantic. From her aristocratic family’s fiery protests and his
parents’ pleas of caution to the astonishing response of the
village locals, Tim and Catherine’s love affair triggers explosive
reactions.