A Year in Provence

A Year in Provence is a 1989 best-selling autobiographical novel by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs. It was adapted into a television mini-series starring John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan. Reviewers praised the book's honest style, wit[1] and its refreshing humour.[2] The book was turned into an equally popular radio version.

Plot

Peter Mayle and his wife move to Provence, and are soon met with unexpectedly fierce weather, underground truffle dealers and unruly workers, who work around their normalement schedule.[3] Meals in Provençal restaurants and work on the Mayles' house, garden and vineyard are features of the book, whose chapters follow the months of the year.

Mini-series

A Year in Provence DVD cover.

In 1993, the BBC produced a television mini-series based on the book, starring Lindsay Duncan and John Thaw, with appearances from Alfred Molina and James Fleet amongst others. Unlike the book, the miniseries was not well received by critics; A Year in Provence was later placed at number ten on a Radio Times list of the worst television programs ever made [4] [5] with the writer, John Naughton, describing it as the ""smugathon" series A Year In Provence " and stated it "achieved the near impossible - creating a John Thaw vehicle nobody liked".[5]

See also

The non-fiction sequels to this book by Peter Mayle are:

See also (a movie based on this novel and a fiction novel Chasing Cezanne also by Peter Mayle):

References

  1. ↑ A Year in Provence, by Peter Mayle
  2. ↑ "A Year in Provence (BlueRectangle - Book Review & Textbook Buyback)". Retrieved 31 May 2010.
  3. ↑ "normalement" is often used when they are asked when jobs will be finished; however it is implied that this timing will never be fulfilled.
  4. ↑ Naked Keith Chegwin hits the heights of 'memorably rotten' TV The Guardian, 22 August 2006. Retrieved 2014-03-26.
  5. 1 2 "The Worst TV shows ever" The Daily Record, 22 August 2006. Retrieved 26 March 2006.

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