Content preview:
Together with you, we will continue to pay attention to the latest chapter of mountain life.
This book won the "Best Travel Book of the Year" award from the British Book Award.
Won Publishers Weekly and The New York Times bestseller list.
It is highly recommended by the British magazine Good Book Guide.
This book is a record of peter mayle and his wife's first year in Provence, southern France. They live in a remote village and try to repair the old house they finally bought after 200 years. Since January, when the northwest monsoon roared down the Dragon Valley and cracked their water pipes, they began to deal with local masons and plumbers. Month after month, they were fed up with the delay of craftsmen. They came up with various ways to make us laugh. In a year's time, they made friends with farmers who hunted wild boar, villagers who collected truffles and other rural neighbors, and learned the secret of manipulating goat races and the wonderful ways to avoid being followed by poisonous snakes. They are increasingly wary of tourists who disturb their quiet life.
About the author: Peter Mayer, a well-known British writer, used to be an executive of a large international advertising company and worked in the advertising industry for 15 years. At the peak of her career, she lived in seclusion in the south of France, with her wife Jenny and her dog, and devoted herself to writing. The main works are "Mountain" ...