Pauline
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There was a good obituary in the Guardian today for Peter Mayle.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/21/peter-mayle-obituary
‘In 1987, Peter Mayle and his third wife, Jennie, moved from Devon to a farmhouse in Ménerbes, in the Luberon region of Provence, which they intended to refurbish while he worked on a novel. Months later, he wrote his agent a long letter explaining his lack of progress on his fiction by detailing the tribulations of dealing with the French. “Do another 250 pages of that,” his agent replied, “and I’ll find a publisher.” The book that resulted, A Year in Provence (1989), became a bestseller, was adapted for television, and spawned a series of sequels as well as a flood of imitators.’
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/21/peter-mayle-obituary
‘In 1987, Peter Mayle and his third wife, Jennie, moved from Devon to a farmhouse in Ménerbes, in the Luberon region of Provence, which they intended to refurbish while he worked on a novel. Months later, he wrote his agent a long letter explaining his lack of progress on his fiction by detailing the tribulations of dealing with the French. “Do another 250 pages of that,” his agent replied, “and I’ll find a publisher.” The book that resulted, A Year in Provence (1989), became a bestseller, was adapted for television, and spawned a series of sequels as well as a flood of imitators.’
