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How to be French: Eat Drink Dress Travel Love Delve into the art of loving and living in every moment – the French way.

What does it mean to be French?
Is it pausing to enjoy a glass of good wine or a spread of cheese? Being a flâneur along avenues and cobbled streets steeped in history? Knowing just how to dress so you always look effortlessly chic?
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About Me

Hello
I’m Janine Marsh. I’m an award winning travel writer, editor and author.

I’m the editor of The Good Life France Magazine (see the latest issue here), and I’m the editor of website www.thegoodlifefance.com. I’ve written three best-selling memoirs about my life in the middle of nowhere, rural northern France where I am maid to 72 animals. A bit different from London where I was born. My chickens feel that the most important job I have is to feed and cherish them.

Sometimes I feel like I’m the Forrest Gump of writing. When I’m not writing copy for clients, articles for magazines and newspaper, content for The Good Life France, or books – you’ll find me writing on my social media pages: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. And sharing photos of my animals, food, gorgeous little villages and the best of France.

I specialise in writing about everything France – from what to see and do, the fabulous wine and gastronomy, books, language and lifestyle.

If you’d like to talk about working together, get in touch.

Warm, uplifting, and effervescent...Janine's voice and humor bubbles right off the page, making you want to pack your bags and visit her fixer-upper home in rural France

Samantha Verant
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My Books

My Good Life in France: In Pursuit of the Rural Dream

One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not something she’d expected or planned for.

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My Four Seasons in France: A Year of the Good Life

Having overcome the obstacles of starting to renovate her dream home – an ancient, dilapidated barn – and fitting in with the peculiarities of her new neighbours, Janine is now the go-to expat in the area for those seeking to get to grips with a very different way of life.

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Toujours la France! Living the Dream in Rural France

Janine and Mark continue their lives in this special part of northern France. With fantastic food, birthday parties, rural traditions old and new – Jean-Claude introduces snail racing to the village – and trouble with uninvited animals, there is never a quiet moment in the Seven Valleys.

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How to be French: Eat Drink Dress Travel Love Delve into the art of loving and living in every moment – the French way.

What does it mean to be French?

Is it pausing to enjoy a glass of good wine or a spread of cheese? Being a flâneur along avenues and cobbled streets steeped in history? Knowing just how to dress so you always look effortlessly chic?

This hardcover book is a celebration of the French lifestyle—an education in drinking to savour the moment, travelling indulgently, and cherishing food and culture. A lesson in the joy of taking things slowly and discovering the art of living well and joie de vivre. We may not all live in France, but anyone can learn how to be un petit plus français with this guide by Janine Marsh.

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