A Year in Provence: Popular PenguinsPeter Mayle's A Year in Provence is the much loved account of an English couple living their dream abroad. When they buy a 200 year old farmhouse in the South of France, Peter Mayle and his wife little expect the delights that await them from six course lunches and epic games of boule, to encounters with charming but unpredictable builders. Both witty and affectionate, this is an idyllic portrait of the pleasures of rural life.