Sixty Miles from England chronicles the town I feel i have come to know well through Pigtails and Pernod - Dieppe. It describes the relationship between the English and the small Normandy town, the contribution of the community to its growing prosperity, to the building of its railway, to its tourist trade and to the its population. It was quite an irony that I finished reading Simona's account of the English expat  community in Dieppe on the day the UK voted to leave the EU. My family were essentially economic migrants (why are the British always 'expat' and other nationalities 'migrant'?) choosing to live in France until the financial regulations no longer worked to their benefit.