![]() The book relates the couple’s month-by-month encounters with local builders, lawyers, truffle hunters, boar hunters and more. After that, I took copious notes, and the chapters more or less wrote themselves.”Ī Year in Provence inspired a wave of similar fare by others ![]() ![]() “Up to that point, I had kept a halfhearted diary. “Everything catastrophic became useful,” he recalled in a 1993 interview. His agent finally told him to shelve the novel and write about the distractions. But with renovations to the 18th-century stone farmhouse they had bought in full swing, he kept getting distracted. Mayle and his wife, Jennie, had moved to the Provence region in 1987, with Mayle intending to write a novel. His death was confirmed by Paul Bogaards of Alfred A Knopf, which has published Mayle’s books since A Year in Provence was released in the United States in 1990. ![]() Peter Mayle, an Englishman who started a writing career in his 30s with sex-education books for children before making a spectacularly successful switch to the travel memoir genre with A Year in Provence, his 1989 bestseller about relocating to Southern France, died on Thursday at a hospital near his home there. ![]()
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