A Year in Provence (Hardcover)

from swati.ravi

A truly delicious feast of a book, Peter Mayle makes you want to run away to Provence right this minute. Simple, clean and vivid writing, coupled with a great heart. This guy has a wry, open-minded and elegant sense of humour along with a great eye for brush0stroke nuances that sketch an entire c...

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 hard-pressed to recall three days after reading; rather like eating unsalted boiled rice. I was also a ...

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. Being a French expat, the parts I enjoyed were the ones about food!

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 that things have probably changed quite a lot since then. Peter Mayle certainly found himself planted...

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 moving someplace new, learning the language as I immersed myself in the town. This reread has not held ...