"It's #Recommendsday! One of the women writers I devoured in my twenties and have returned to again and again. I love these fictionalized memoirs of life in rural France at the turn of the last century, of strong women, of pets and gardens. On a yellowed paperback page, many years ago, I underlined: "To me the important thing is to lay bare and bring to light something that no human eye before mine has gazed upon." - @BethFishReads