Sometimes author Jane Dunning, whose first novel Thirty-five Minutes from St Tropez  was inspired by her love of Provence, wonders if France is in her blood because she was born in Guernsey  in the Channel Islands.

‘I’m not sure,’ she says, ‘but I truly love our neighbour across the English Channel.’

Which, perhaps, explains why Brexit is testing her patience.

Her first visit to France was in 1978 when it had few Continue reading →