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It's unavoidable making the comparison between this book and Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence. Both are memoirs by ex-Pat Brits of their relocation to bucolic parts of Southern Europe, both to be found in my neighborhood book store almost side-by-side under Travel Essays. A blurb from the Daily Telegraph even says Stewart is being talked up as "the new Peter Mayle." Fortunately Stewart compared well--in fact I liked his book quite a bit more than Mayle's.
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Not as enjoyable as Bill Bryson, or Peter Mayle's Provence books, but I'm reading it because we're off to the mountains of Andalucia in a couple of weeks. It shows, I think, that writing is not his first career choice - he tends to be a bit long-winded, and perhaps understandably given the kind of music Genesis used to play, a little bit boring?
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Apr 05, 2011
Angela Randall
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