A Year in Provence: 9780679731146

from Okies

The TV series with John Thaw. Love anything with John Thaw.

from turtlesleap

Clearly there is some appeal in Mayle's travelogue that simply does not get through to me. I found the book highly forgettable. Not unpleasant, mind you, but the sort of thing that one would be har...

from tulip_367

An easy and overall rather pleasant read but I found the characters too romanticized and was irritated by some French sayings supposedly said by French people that are not even correct French. Bein...

from LynleyS

Reading about spending a year in France is way easier to organise than actually spending a year in France so that's what I did. I had to keep reminding myself that this was written in the 80s and t...

from aelizabethj

When I first read this as a wee Ashley, I was enthralled. I'd been abroad some as a child, but never longer than a week or two at a time and I'd always secretly dreamt of selling everything and mov...