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Review: A Northern Light in Provence by Elizabeth Birkelund

A Northern Light in Provence by Elizabeth Birkelund Blurb from Goodreads : A woman leaves her coastal Greenland village to translate the works of a renowned Provençal poet and finds her life irrevocably changed, in this tender and romantic novel set in a French village. “A charming and beautifully written novel about self-discovery, the power of language, and yes, love!”—Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants   Ilse Erlund is a translator who lives in a house on stilts along the west coast of Greenland. Isolated and restless in her world by the sea, she convinces her publisher to pay for a trip to the country she has never visited but whose language she speaks France. Her mission is to translate the verses of Geoffrey “Po” Labaye, a charismatic poet known as “the last living troubadour of Provence.”Upon arrival in the medieval hilltop village of Belle Rivière, Ilse falls under the spell of the Provençal way of ...