NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs. He endures January’s frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of … through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.
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“A Year In Provence” accomplishes precisely what it sets out to, which is to make you wish you lived in Provence. I’ve been to that part of France, and it’s far from the most impressive place I’ve ever visited, but Mayle makes it sound like an absolute paradise. The upper-class home renovation complaints, untranslated French terms thrown in, and …
I read this book for my May 2017 book club. I loved learning about the region, the wines, all the small towns they traveled to in France. It made me really want to travel and experience this region in France.
This book was charming.. month by month you learn of the whimsy of life there as well as the idiosyncratic nature of the locals that has to take precedence over all. The food, the weather, their old home, their visitors – I savored every page.
To learn a bit about the South France culture, very different from Paris, and very similar to other Latin European countries.
Have you ever traveled to France and fell in love with it? Have you ever dreamed of owning a house in Provence? If yes, this book is definitely for you!
A delightful read!
Reading this, you want to be in Provence
A great book from start to finish. Makes you want to live tnere.
Wonderful descriptions!
Fun read
I truly enjoyed this book. The characters are treated with humor and respect. As soon as I finished I ordered another written by this author.
This is one of my favorite books.
Don’t know if it’s a true story to not but it’s totally believable Entertaining
Love these books about Provence.
After all these years, still a joy to re visit.
A classic – the one that started it all (the foibles and charming twists of renovating an old home in a foreign country). Began a lifelong love for me with Peter Mayle books and inspired many stops and side trips during my trips to Provence.
Charming story of the author’s and his wife’s first year of living in Provence.
Great book…old one but if you love France, you will have a good laugh.
I enjoyed this book about the author’s adventures in France. It was well written and witty. I believe it was the first of a series that he wrote.
As long as you know what you are about to read, this is a terrific, interesting, and very personal account of living twelve months in Provence
An insiders look at real life in Provence-loved it!