Bears were reintroduced in the Pyrenees in 1996 (See Julia Stagg’s account here) and although our house is right there in the middle of “bear country” I must admit that I have never seen or heard one, even though I go out rambling and cycling a lot in that area. Yet, on a starry night, I spotted Ursa Major (a.k.a. the Big Bear).

> Read on: Julia Stagg’s novels set in a fictional mountain village of the Pyrenees named “Fogas”