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. In the company of a washing-machine repairman, I took my first tentative steps in the language, as his little van bucketed down the narrow road to Lrida. 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. 'Driving Over Lemons' author Chris Stewart By Chris Stewart I WAS just 21 when I first arrived in Spain, hitchhiking over the Pyrenees into this strange, seemingly African land. 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. Ever the optimist, Chris hoped to earn enough money to buy a second-hand tractor for his farm.

The expat author is sealing his 30-year love affair with his adopted homeland by becoming a. 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. Driving Over Lemons author Chris Stewart chats to Olive Press about pandemics and politics in Spain. MCL librarians Rachel & Jennifer discuss 'Driving Over Lemons,' a memoir by Chris Stewart, one of the founding members of the band Genesis, who moved on to s. Print Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucia - Special Anniversary Edition (with new chapter 25 years on)Ī special anniversary edition with a new chapter 25 years on.

Driving Over Lemons by Chris Stewart