After struggling through Adventures on the Wine Route a few books back, one of the people who also slogged through it said that this book would be much better. I heartily agree. It is delightful.
A British couple moves to Provence. It is about cross-cultural communication, country life, and good food and wine. Delightful.
I liked the series by the same name too. It is a bit dated, but it followed the book really well!
We want to go now and try a Patis!
Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:
This charming narrative, in which former advertising executive Peter Mayle chronicles his inaugural year as a British expatriate in Provence, offers a refreshing respite from one’s own routine. In pursuit of a long-savored dream of the sweet life in the South of France, Mayle and his wife purchased a two-hundred-year-old stone farmhouse between the medieval hill villages of Ménerbes and Bonnieux in the Luberon, set to work on its restoration, and settled—sometimes with élan, sometimes with awkward Englishness—into the rhythms and rituals of Provençal life.
