Review A delightful journal of calamity and discovery. — Good Book Guide Product Description Among the rich cast of characters he meets during his year of exploration is Virgile, a young local wine-maker who offers to initiate Patrick into the mysteries of each season’s work in the fields and in the cellar. Virgile is passionately [...]

Amazon.comA Year in Provence, the made-for-TV version of the bestselling book by Peter Mayle, captures a year in the lives of Brits Mayle (John Thaw) and his wife Annie (Lindsay Duncan) in southern France. The Mayles both revel in and endure what for most would be a fantasy experience: leaving dull jobs, acquiring an old [...]

Amazon.com Review Who hasn’t dreamed, on a mundane Monday or frowzy Friday, of chucking it all in and packing off to the south of France? Provenal cookbooks and guidebooks entice with provocatively fresh salads and azure skies, but is it really all Ctes-du-Rhne and fleur-de-lis? Author Peter Mayle answers that question with wit, warmth, and [...]