Tottie Limejuice

'frank, funny, sometimes tragic''Trot on ' is a familiar phrase to riding instructors everywhere. Why not adjust your stirrups, shorten your reins and join Tottie Limejuice, author of the popular Sell the Pig series of travel memoirs, as she takes you on a ride through more of her adventures. Even if you're not horsey, Tottie's tales of running a holiday riding centre on top of a Welsh mountain will have you alternately laughing and reaching for the tissues. It's all told in Tottie's familiar no-holds-barred style. As reviewers have said, it's like sitting down for a cup of tea and a natter with the author in person. So why not put the kettle on and open the book?

In March 2007, Tottie left Britain to follow the dream of a new life in France for herself, her elderly mother and her damaged brother. Has the dream turned to a nightmare or is Tottie still happily living the quiet life in her little 'grottage' in the Auvergne region of central France? Come with Tottie now as she takes you on Tottie's Tours of the Auvergne. Enjoy the familiar ironic humour and keen eye for detail that will bring the landscape and the people to life for you. Be prepared to shed a tear as you say goodbye to some familiar characters. And find out how Tottie took to a life of crime once she retired from her work as a freelance copywriter. 'Biff the Useless Mention' is the fourth and concluding part of what started out as a trilogy, with 'Sell the Pig', 'Is That Billinge Lump' and 'Mother Was It Worth It'. Don't miss this concluding part of the 'Sell the Pig' series. 'Mother, mother, it's a bugger, sell the pig and buy me out'. Author's update: When I wrote the words 'fourth and concluding part' that was my intention. But life took over, a big grey wolf DID come out of the forest, and so there are now two more volumes in the 'Sell the Pig' series, Angling Bumateurs, and Trot On

What happens when dementia, depressed dipsomania and downright dottiness decide to uproot from the UK and move to France together. Worried by the lack of care for her frail elderly mother in the UK, Tottie decides a new life elsewhere might be the answer. Sell the Pig is a travel tale with a twist, describing with alternating humour and poignancy how a somewhat dysfunctional family decide to uproot and move to rural France. Eccentric Tottie, her manic depressive alcoholic brother, their mother, whose dementia has given her an obsession with bums, and an equally elderly border collie, decide France's Auvergne is to be their new home. This is the story of what led them to make that journey. Sell the Pig is the first in a series of books which continues with Is That Billinge Lump? and Mother, Was It Worth It? This is a brand new edition with additional previously unseen content.

Tottie and her eccentric family moved to France in search of a better life for her nearly nonogenarian mother who suffered from dementia. As her full-time carer, Tottie listened to daily recitations of her favourite saying: 'Mother, mother, it's a bugger, sell the pig and buy me out." Catch up now with Tottie in the AM years - After Mother - as she starts her new life in the rural Livradois-Forez region of the Auvergne, living in Tottie's Grottage. Meet the local inhabitants, from exotic birds to colourful characters like the Bin Pickers, Library Lady and the Bowing Farmer. All are described with Tottie's familiar gently ironic humour. Discover the procedure behind the Frogification of Tottie, and if her bid for French nationality is successful.'Mother Was It Worth It' is the concluding part of the Sell the Pig series, which began with 'Sell the Pig' and 'Is That Billinge Lump'