Anything Considered (30 page)

“A place like this. They’ll never let me in.”

Bennett looked at her dust-caked boots, her rumpled jeans, her T-shirt, which showed signs of great fatigue. And then her face, and the glow of her eyes. You’d have to be blind to resist, he thought.

“You look hungry,” he said. “They’ll let you in.”

He picked up the bag and took her hand. They were greeted in the courtyard by the smiling husband of Elisabeth, the chef, who showed them to a corner table where their closest neighbors were geraniums. “Would you like me to take the bag while you have lunch?”

Bennett grinned at Anna. “No,” he said. “Thank you. I think we’ll hang on to it.”

“Peter Mayle [is] something of a wonder … chronicling the scene around him in irresistible prose.”

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Time

A DOG’S LIFE

A Dog’s Life
, enhanced by the splendidly whimsical drawings of Edward Koren, is the irresistible memoir of Boy, Peter Mayle’s adopted dog of uncertain origins and dubious hunting skills, who has clearly inherited Mr. Mayle’s gift for pedigree prose and biting wit.

Fiction/Pets/0-679-76267-1

HOTEL PASTIS

In this novel of romance, adventure, and tongue-in-cheek suspense, Simon Shaw has decided to chuck it all and transform an abandoned police station in the Lubéron into the small but world-class Hotel Pastis, only to discover the hard way that an inept band of bank robbers have chosen the neighboring village for their next heist.

Fiction/0-679-75111-4

TOUJOURS PROVENCE

Taking up where his much-loved
A Year in Provence
left off, Peter Mayle offers the reader another funny, beautifully (and deliciously) evocative tour of life in Provence. This is an enchanting portrait of a place whose characters are full of the wit, charm, and tales only those who live there could possess.

Travel/0-679-73604-2

A YEAR IN PROVENCE

In this witty and warm-hearted account that was a major national bestseller, Peter Mayle tells what it is like to realize a long-cherished dream and actually move into a two-hundred-year-old farmhouse in the French countryside.
A Year in Provence
transports us into all the earthy pleasures of Provençal life and lets us live vicariously at a tempo governed by seasons, not by days.

Travel/0-679-73114-8

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