{"id":622,"date":"2020-04-04T12:52:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T12:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/?p=622"},"modified":"2023-02-08T19:09:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T17:09:48","slug":"book-release-a-family-moving-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amotherinfrance.com\/book-release-a-family-moving-to-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Release \u2013 What have we got Toulouse? A family moving to France"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I am so excited.  My new book about moving to France as a family, \u201cWhat have we got Toulouse?\u201d Is now available.  I can\u2019t believe I\u2019ve finally got there! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why write a book about moving to France?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I started writing back in 2011, seven years after moving to France and it\u2019s been through many versions and adaptations in that time.\u00a0 When we were first considering moving to France back in 2003 I read every book on living in France I could get my hands on.\u00a0 They were all interesting, but none of them gave me an insight into what it would be like living as a family in France, having a baby in France, schools in France, making friends in France and making a living in France.\u00a0 All the books I read were written largely by retirees and I knew the picture they were painting of quaint villages, bistros, markets and cafes was very different to the life we would be experiencing.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I vowed to myself that one day I would write the book that I would love to have read and found most useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finding the time to write about moving to France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I started writing in the Spring of 2011 and once I started I couldn\u2019t stop, the words kept flowing.\u00a0 Our lives in France were pretty hectic, what with five children, several businesses and a large house to manage.\u00a0 Most of my writing was done during the early hours of the morning when I couldn\u2019t sleep and now I tend to write in the evenings (instead of watching TV). I soon found that the number of experiences I had to share was too immense for just one book, and I would never get it finished.\u00a0 Then of course major life events just kept on coming and coming (as they tend to do). I had many stops and starts in the nine years it\u2019s taken me to get this far.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, despite all that here I am leaping over the publishing hurdle and the result is my first book in the \u201cA mother in France\u201d series – What have we got Toulouse? A family moving to France.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our story of moving to France<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We have had so many experiences over the past sixteen years.  This first book covers three main areas of our lives in France:<\/p>\n\n\n\n