Even though this book is a coffee table style book, I read it from cover to cover. It appealed to my artistic side, as well as my interest in house decorating and garden keeping. It features 20 different French women. Each woman has a few pages dedicated to them with a short synopsis of how they live and a photo shoot of their workplaces and homes. Some of them live in the French countryside, others live in Paris and have a country home, some also live in small villages. Each woman has an established way of life. Their families vary as to being single with grown children to married with kids still in the house and everything in-between. To me, they each seemed to have an elegance to them and the knowledge of how one should enjoy the simple pleasures in life and seek the quiet joys of everyday living. This, of course, is balanced against the busy, motivated life of working. Some of their professions were: selling antiques, country home interior shop, painter (as in on canvas), bridal gown designer, champagne producer, horse raiser, home renovator, and wire sculptor to name a few. So interesting and beautiful, a really enjoyable book.
