Deborah Lawrenson

The Sea Garden is published in the UK today! The day is finally here after all the months of build-up. To look inside the book and read t...

  It was 1944 again, for one night only, in the small town of Apt yesterday to mark the 70th anniversary of its liberation. Klaxons sou...

Seventy years ago today, the American-led liberation of southern France reached the town of Apt. The previous day, the tanks and Jeeps ha...

  Summer in Provence, and the days are just slipping by...and suddenly it's ten days since I last posted. To be fair, I'd alway...

  I'm having a break from writing at the moment, enjoying the sun, reading and working in the garden. But the other day, the mood c...

    The lavender cutting has begun. When the wind catches the fields, warm gusts of scent rise into the air. And when the harvest i...

“No cars were permitted on the island and most people who passed were on bicycles: dented, clicking, cumbersome machines of uncertain vi...