Last Tango in Toulouse: Torn Between Two Loves - Tapa blanda

The year of her fiftieth birthday, gardening writer Mary Moody ran away from home, family and work for six months to live in a remote French village. They were six months that turned the rest of her life upside down, as she bought a house in the village, persuaded her husband to sell the family home of twenty-five years and take up goose farming, and abandoned her television career in favour of writing about her travelling experiences. Yet, even these dramatic events were merely the outward sign of far deeper changes. To her surprise, Mary found herself grappling with the intense emotion of an affair, and its consequences to her marriage and family. Her account of this fraught subject is frank, honest and painful, just as her and her husband's responses to it are moving and inspirational. Amid this turmoil, Mary also rediscovered a sister not seen by the family for nearly fifty years. "Last Tango in Toulouse" is Mary's compelling account of these tumultuous upheavals in her life, and an affirmation of the power of family in overcoming the greatest challenges. Written with humour, warmth and passion, and an often searing honesty, "Last Tango in Toulouse" shows that life really can begin again at 50.

Mary Moody is an author, journalist and television presenter. She lives half her life in France, where she has a small village house in the Lot region, just south of the Dordogne, and the remainder at her country home and garden in Yetholme, New South Wales, Australia. She is the author of Au Revoir: Finding Myself in the South of France and Roses, both published by Murdoch Books.