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Genre: Comedy Drama. Category Comedy of Manners. Theme: Culture Clash, Starting Over. Studio: A&E Home Video. Run Time: 06 hr. Language: English. Format: DVD. Release Date: April 26, 2011.

Free Worldwide Delivery : A Year in Provence : Paperback : Penguin Books Ltd : 9780140296037 : 0140296034 : 01 Jun 2000 : Peter Mayle and his wife did what most of us only imagine doing when they made their long-cherished dream of a life abroad a reality: throwing caution to the wind, they bought a glorious two hundred year-old farmhouse in the Luberon Valley and began a new life. This work lets you discover the joys of French rural living.

Edition: Abridged, Audio CD, Macmillan Audio

Peter Mayle personally recounts the pleasures and frustrations of Provençal life--sharing in a way no one else can, the unique and endearing culture that is Provence....

Peter Mayle and his wife had been to Provence as tourists. They had dreamed of one day trading the long, grey winters and damp summers of England for the blue skies and sunshine of the coast of southern France. And then they made it happen. They moved into an old farmhouse at the foot of the Luberon mountains and embarked on a wonderful, if at times bewildering, new life.

They had been there often as tourists. They had cherished the dream of someday living all year under the Provencal sun. And suddenly it happened. Here is the month-by-month account of the charms and frustrations that Peter Mayle and his wife -- and their two large dogs -- experience their first year in the remote country of the Luberon restoring a two-centuries-old stone farmhouse that they bought on sight. From coping in January with the first mistral, which comes howling down from the Rhone Valley...

By Peter Mayle Quick Links About the Book Review quote Biographical note Excerpt from bookBook Details (Top) Format Paperback Pages 224 Publisher Knopf Publishing Group Publication Date June 4, 1991 ISBN 9780679731146 (0679731148) Category Travel : Europe: France About the Book (Top) 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...

However, everything is not quite as they imagined it to be, and one comic situation follows another as they brave mistral winds, truffle season and mafia involvement, while a succession of colourful characters constantly interrupt their plan for a quiet life

Peter and Annie Mayle fulfill their cherished dream when they quit the London rat race and move to rustic Provence to savor the French way of life - good food, fine wines, and seductive climate. Ah, but the Provencal way of life is something quite different - even the French find it peculiar. Based on Peter Mayle's international bestseller by the same name, "A Year In Provence" is the hilarious first year account of the Mayles' adjusting to both the idiosyncrasies of the locals and the quaint traditions...

Travel - Europe - France

Peter and Annie Mayle quit London's rat race to restore a cozy farmhouse in France's Luberon Valley. Based on Mayle's best-seller, this miniseries recounts the couple's hilarious adjustment to local idiosyncrasies and quaint traditions of Provence. John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan star. Experience the slow and savory Provencal summer, then an autumn of crisp days, and a cellar full of homemade wine--as the Mayles' first year comes to a joyous end.

Peter Mayle's best seller, recounting the first year he and his wife spent in Provence, is brought wonderfully to life in this BBC adaptation starring John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan. Having decided to leave their jobs, London and the rat race behind them, the Mayles head off to the South of France, seduced by the prospect of the idyllic countryside, the simple rural way of life, great food, fine wines and sun. However, everything is not quite as they imagined it to be, and one comic situation follows...

Adapted from Peter Mayle's international best seller, the video recounts the first year of Mayle's stay in rustic Provence. Mayle and his wife Annie have abandoned the London rat race to savor the small pleasures and grace of the French way of life, a world characterized by great food, fine wines and a seductive climate. The Mayles explore the charm of the region and meet a group of unconventional characters who complicate their lives with intrigue and misadventures. Four-cassette deluxe boxed...

Well the title looks familiar . . . and Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence may have been the trigger for Christopher Marsh's brilliant debut novel - but there the similarities end....

Materials: paper, metal, cotton

Pages: 184, Paperback, Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Crew: Director:David Tucker, Executive Producer:Barry Hanson, Producer:Ken Riddington, Screenwriter:Michael Sadler