![]() ![]() The hero of the piece, however, is the farm itself - a patch of mountain studded with olive, almond and lemon groves, sited on the wrong side of a river, with no access road, water supply or electricity. He meets their neighbours, an engaging mix of farmers, shepherds and New Age travellers, and their daughter Chloe is born, linking them irrevocably to their new life. Misadventures gleefully unfold as Chris discovers that the owner had no intention of leaving. A dreamer and an itinerant sheep shearer, he moves with his wife Ana to a mountain farm in Las Alpujarras, an oddball region in the south of Spain. Lush with olive, lemon, and almond groves. Now all he had to do was explain to Ana, his wife that they were the proud owners of an isolated sheep farm in the Alpujarra Mountains in Southern Spain. No sooner had Chris Stewart set eyes on El Valero than he handed over a check. ![]() He got his tractor, as the book spent a year on the Sunday Times Top 10 charts and went on to sell a million and a half copies. Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andaluca. Ever the optimist, Chris hoped to earn enough money to buy a second-hand tractor for his farm. Over two decades ago we set up Sort of Books to help our friend, the some-time Genesis drummer Chris Stewart, bring his sunlit stories of life on a Spanish mountain farm to print. ![]()
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