- Fiction, Wine and wine making, Inheritance and succession, British
From Peter Mayle, a wonderful new novel steeped in wine--and the business of wine?and set in, bien sur, Provence. Max Skinner is not exactly setting the London financial world on fire?and when his supervisor steals his biggest client, it's definitely time to inspect the vineyard in Provence that his recently departed uncle left him.
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- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Peter Mayle
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 287
- Publisher
- Distributed by Random House, Vintage Books, Random House Large Print
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780316724500
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Peter Mayle was a British businessman turned author who moved to France in the 1980s. Born in Brighton, Sussex, the youngest of three children, Mayle and his parents moved to Barbados in the aftermath of World War II, where his father was transferred as a Colonial Office employee. Mayle returned to England after leaving school at 16 in Barbados. He relocated from Devon to the Lubéron, southern France, in the late 80s but his plans to write a novel were overtaken by an account of life in his new environment. This resulted in *A Year in Provence*, chronicling his first year as a British expatriate in Ménerbes, a village in the southern département Vaucluse. *A Year in Provence* (1989) was the
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