A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
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A Year in Provence

Author: Peter Mayle

Narrator: Peter Mayle

Abridged: 2 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2004


Synopsis

More than 40,000 listeners have enjoyed this story on cassette. Now anyone who's ever dreamed of getting away from it all can enjoy the charms and challenges of A Year in Provence on CD!
Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, gray winters and damp summers of England for the blue skies and sunshine of the coast of southern France. And then they made it happen.
They moved into an old farmhouse at the foot of the Luberon mountains and embarked on a wonderful, if at times bewildering, new life. Among their experiences that first year: being inundated with builders and visitors, grappling with the native accent, taking part in goat races and supervising the planting of a new vineyard.
Peter Mayle personally recounts the pleasures and frustrations of Provençal life--sharing in a way no one else can, the unique and endearing culture that is Provence.
A Year in Provence was a New York Times bestseller for three years and won the British Book Awards' "Best Travel Book of the Year."

About Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle (1939-2018) spent fifteen years in the advertising business before escaping in 1975 to write books, including his bestselling A Year in Provence and Toujours Provence. His work has been translated into seventeen languages and he has contributed to a variety of newspapers and magazines.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Noel on February 01, 2011

I read a couple of reviews on goodreads for this book and had to laugh at some of those who felt the book was whiney and written by a rich guy who could afford a super farmhouse with a pool no less! One review said that Mayle went back to England to live. Well – those reviews smack of small minded j......more

Goodreads review by Razvan on July 23, 2023

ADORABLE is the best word for this delicious book. We have a Jerome K. Jerome type of wise humor, somewhat reconciled with the implacable touch of fate even in the smallest details of ordinary life, the sweet "laissez faire" kind of living, accompanied with generous slices of kindness. Perhaps Mr. M......more


Quotes

“Engaging, funny and richly appreciative.” —The New York Times

“Stylish, witty, delightfully readable.” —The Sunday Times (London)

“A Francophile's delight, this is a highly entertaining book.” —Library Journal

“I really loved this book.” —Julia Child