My Twenty-Five Years in Provence, by Peter Mayle

March 15, 2019

Recently my nose led me to a stall in down-town Vancouver where people were selling lavender products made in Provence, France. With lavender and Provence still strongly on my mind I grabbed Peter Mayle’s memoir off the bookstore shelf without a second thought. It was so prettily published and the subject was appealing – and besides, I had read his 1989 hit memoir, A Year in Provence, with great enjoyment. The title is self-explanatory – but what is this British preoccupation with relocating to France? (Keep reading…)

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