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Year in Provence

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...

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  • "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..."@en
  • "Peter Mayle and his wife live on their farm in Provence, southern France. This vivid, amusing and affectionate account of their first year has an array characters and incidents which made this book a best-seller in 1991."@en
  • "The author and his wife moved to an old farmhouse in Provence France for a year, and he shares the enduring culture of Provençal life."@en
  • "The story of Peter Mayle and his wife, as they settle into their old farmhouse situated between Avignon and Aix, in Provence. They survive the buffeting of the mistral and the invasion of builders and guests in hilarious style."@en
  • "The story of a couple who realizes their dream of living in Provence, France."
  • "Memoir of Peter Mayle and his wife's experience moving into an old farmhouse at the foot of the Luberon mountains. He recounts the pleasures and frustrations of Provencal life."@en
  • "First, a dream of life in Provence, and then a home to match the dream. Moving into an old farmhouse at the foot of the Luberon Mountains between Avignon and Aix was the beginning of an exotic and bewildering new life for Peter Mayle and his wife. "A year in Provence" is Peter Mayle's own hilarious description of their pleasurable and occasionally frustrating experiences."@en
  • ""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.""@en
  • "Recounts the pleasures and frustrations of Provencal life."@en
  • "An account of the author's first year in Provence offers many examples of its local cuisine, tips for dealing with French contractors and truffle hunting, and discussions of his eccentric neighbors."@en
  • "This is a warm and witty recounting of a year in rural France. Mayle and his wife fulfill a life-long dream when they occupy an old stone farmhouse in remote Luberon. They experienced the wonderful cuisine and earthly pleasures of Provencal life, as well as some odd delights such as goat racing through the town."
  • "Who hasn't dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Proven."@en
  • "The author and his wife moved to an old farmhouse in Provence (France) for a year, and he shares the enduring culture of Provençal life."
  • "Peter Mayle transports us to the earthly pleasure of Provencial life and let us live vicariously in a tempo governed by seasons, not by days."

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  • "A year in Provence Toujours Provence"