A Year in Provence

A Year in Provence is a 1989 bestselling autobiographical novel by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs. It was adapted into a television miniseries starring John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan. Reviewers praised the book's honest style, wit^[1] and its refreshing humour.^[2] The book was turned into an equally popular radio version.

Plot

Peter Mayle and his wife move to Provence, and are soon met with unexpectedly fierce weather, underground truffle dealers and unruly workers, who work around their normalement schedule.

Miniseries

A Year in Provence DVD cover.

The book was turned into a mini-series, starring Lindsay Duncan and John Thaw, with appearances from Alfred Molina and James Fleet amongst others. See: "A Year in Provence" (1993)

See also

The non-fiction sequels to this book by Peter Mayle are:

• Toujours Provence 1991
• Encore Provence 1999
• French Lessons 2001

See also (a movie based on this novel and a fiction novel Chasing Cezanne also by Peter Mayle):

• A Good Year 2006

References

External links

• http://www.amazon.com/Year-Provence-John-Thaw/dp/B00005NKCN
• A Year in Provence at the Internet Movie Database
• http://french.about.com/library/reviews/aafpr-yearinprovence.htm
• A Year in Provence on Open Library at the Internet Archive