NATIONAL BESTSELLER - In this witty and warm-hearted account, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a 200-year-old stone farmhouse in the remote country of the Lubéron with his wife and two large dogs.

He endures January's frosty mistral as it comes howling down the Rhône Valley, discovers the secrets of goat racing through the middle of town, and delights in the glorious regional cuisine. A Year in Provence transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.

Author: Peter Mayle
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 06/04/1991
Series: Vintage Departures
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.22w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780679731146


Award: 1992 Book Sense Book of the Year Award Nominee - Book of the Year


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/19/1991

About the Author
Peter Mayle is the author of fifteen books, nine of them novels, including the beloved bestseller A Year in Provence. A recipient of the Légion d'Honneur from the French government for his cultural contributions, he lived in Provence with his wife, Jennie, for more than twenty-five years. Mayle died in 2018.