A Year in Provence

Name: A Year in Provence
Author: Peter Mayle

by Peter Mayle

British author's witty memoir of renovating a house and adjusting to rural Provence's charming quirks

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Peter Mayle

Peter Mayle was a British author whose A Year in Provence became one of the most successful travel memoirs ever written, spawning an entire genre of expat lifestyle books. His warmly funny accounts of rural French life appealed to millions of readers dreaming of escape.

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