
An amazing story of love, glassblowing and one family’s gutsy move to France
Building writing confidence through experience was key to Rachel Caldecott publishing her memoir Blown Out of Proportion: Misadventures of a Glassblower in France.
Certainly Caldecott never expected to end up writing, despite coming from a ‘booky’ family that included a writer mother and publisher father.
Indeed as a youngster she was interested in “too many things” and assumed something else was waiting for her.
But, despite these doubts, Caldecott’s Blown Out of Proportion was published in April.
And it tells the tale of moving, with her husband Chris and their two young children, from the United Kingdom to southern France.
Here they establish a glassblowing studio in an impoverished, sleepy town while braving scorpion-filled hovels, eccentric locals, corrupt politicians and traumatic legal battles.
Forever Young Autobiographies caught up with Caldecott to find out more about her book, the creative process and her suggestions for fellow writers.
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