Title: Don't bother - pick up Peter Mayle instead
Product review: I read this book when it was first published, so some of the details have escaped me, but the bad taste it left in my mouth remains. I picked up this book because the jacket claims some similarity to Peter Mayle, whose stories of living in the south of France are truly entertaining and original. Mayes, cleverly, borrows many of the charms of Mayle's writing and changes the scenery (not much) to Tuscany. If only her crime stopped there. Alas, no. She insists upon polluting the landscape with her aristocratic, narrow-minded lifestyle. Thus my spoiled appetite. Thank goodness her attitudes and perspectives are rare, indeed, in San Francisco.Stick to the real thing - Peter Mayle - and you won't be disappointed.
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