There are moments in life when you want to leave everything behind and start over, preferably somewhere far away. Christine Cazon has put into action what remains an idle wish for most people. After numerous private and professional setbacks, she decided one day to turn her life around by leaving Germany for France. Yet, as a trainee on an organic farm in a new and unfamiliar environment, she struggled at first: it felt to her like her new home country was giving her the cold shoulder. Too much work, little money, hardly any recognition. Add to this the linguistic challenges – this was not how she had imagined her dream of getting away. Not to mention that fate also continued to strike again in France.
But Christine Cazon didn’t shut down; instead, she faced the world and her daily life in France with open eyes – and began writing. First a blog, which turned into the book Zwischen Boule und Bettenmachen (2009, having sold 20,000 copies), then very successful crime novels. With a great deal of humor and self-irony, but also warmth and sympathy for her fellow human beings, Cazon describes a life that has been turned upside down and all the hopes, challenges and personal developments that come with it, offering astonishing insight into what it means to go on search for happiness abroad. Reassuring and inspiring!
