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...Anything requiring renovation — the idyll of gentle expat living sketched by Peter Mayle in his books about Provence — is “not relevant”, says Harvey....
...Even before Peter Mayle’s influential A Year in Provence (1989), people flocked to the area with a view to cultivating a more thoughtful pace of life, for their retirement or sabbatical....
...I pictured the black silk Mayle dress with the first Holy Communion-style, antique lace inserts that I would have bought 25 years ago if I had had the money then. It haunts my dreams to this day....
...It is Peter Mayle’s fault....
...It’s not really a Peter Mayle lifestyle here,” says de Bierre, referring to the author whose books popularised a rural, slow-moving vision of Provence....
...There is also a sense of pride, with a local paper dubbing Marsh the Peter Mayle (author of A Year in Provence) of Pas-de-Calais....
...As for the idea that French executives struggle with the UK’s short lunches and long working hours, this is part of a construct built from Peter Mayle books and decorated in the style of a Café Rouge....
...know something about it because I’ve been re-reading Driving over Lemons, the 1999 travel book by Chris Stewart, the one-time Genesis drummer who has done for the Alpujarras something akin to what Peter Mayle...
...But this is no cosy, Peter Mayle-esque account of a rural idyll. There is not much sense that Goulson enjoys French culture, apart from the cheese....
...rather than the heroic author, centre stage), the naturalist’s journal (in the line from Gilbert White and Darwin), and the get-away-from-it-all Mediterranean idyll, the forerunner of books such as Peter Mayle...
...Plats du Jour by Patience Gray (a woman whom Mrs David detested even more than she detested Peter Mayle) and Primrose Boyd is of 1957....
...Following the success of Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence (1989), a stream of relocation narratives poured from the presses, as urban readers were told of happy escapes from rush-hour traffic jams to olive...
...Peter Mayle focused the attention of the world on his home patch of the Lubéron in his best-selling memoirs A Year in Provence....
...Refurbishment of what is now La Verrière was a long process and Rolet and his American-Italian wife Nicole, whom he married in 1997, mentions regular “Peter Mayle moments” – a reference to Mayle’s memoir...
...Last week, when flipping through an oddly readable report from the Artemis Income Fund, I came upon this: “As Peter Mayle, author and resident of Provence, notes: ‘In France there is a rough rule of thumb...
...While the Mayle and Meades generation had olive-harvested their way around southern Europe on Eurorail, my lot were just as foolishly nostalgic for gap years in Goa, Sydney and San Francisco....
...Peter Mayle wrote A Year in Provence in 1990. The book became an international bestseller and was followed by a TV series starring John Thaw in 1993....
...However, the company is also attracting established writers, such as Peter Matthiessen, of The Snow Leopard fame, and Peter Mayle, author of A Year in Provence....
...Two decades have passed since the publication of Peter Mayle’s international bestseller A Year in Provence ....
...Peter Mayle’s Provence has spun off sequels, a TV series and a feature film. Stephen Clarke’s Merde has grown to a four-book series....
...Provence A-Z By Peter Mayle BBC, 8 hrs 50mins Professional Francophile Mayle, of A Year in Provence fame, alphabetically catalogues the attractions of his adopted southern French homeland....
...As author Peter Mayle wrote in 1991: “Even when rooms are available, a reservation is not necessarily automatic....
...Writer Peter Mayle, whose books include ‘A Year In Provence’ and the recently filmed ‘A Good Year’, was born in south-east England and lives in the Vaucluse in the south of France with his wife, Jenni, and...
...In the 1980s, it was “quitting the rat race”– chronicled by advertising executive Peter Mayle from his home in Provence....
...Years ago, in Harvey Nichols, I nearly bought the most beautiful dark silk dress designed by Jane Mayle that had a cross-shaped panel of ivory lace set into the bodice....
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