山居岁月 (1989)

《普罗旺斯的一年》（A Year in Provence），又译为《山居岁月》，是一本英国作家彼德·梅尔（Peter Mayle）于1989所出版的自传型散文集。

评价

这本书叙述作者与家人（主要是他的太太和3条狗）于1986年迁居法国南部普罗旺斯省份时，第一年的生活点滴、并及当地的种种事情与习俗。书中文字隽永，笔调诙谐幽默。发行之初即获广大回响，曾高据当时欧美等地非文学类畅销书排行榜多时。

星期天泰晤士报（The Sunday Times）称本书生动描写当地生活与风景，让读者不由自主的对普罗旺斯产生热情。星期天快报（Sunday Express）则称赞作者引人入胜的乡居记事，仿佛让人亲尝那美食与美酒。

续集

Toujours Provence (1991) (永远的普罗旺斯)

Encore Provence (1999) (安可普罗旺斯)

French Lessons (2001) (法语课)

A Year in Provence is a 1989 best-selling memoir by Peter Mayle about his first year in Provence, and the local events and customs. Reviewers praised the book's honest style, wit, and refreshing humour. It was adapted into a BBC Television series starring John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan.

Plot

Peter Mayle and his wife move to Provence, and are soon met with unexpectedly fierce weather, underground truffle dealers and unruly workers, who work around their normalement schedule. Meals in Provençal restaurants and work on the Mayles' house, garden and vineyard are features of the book, whose chapters follow the months of the year.

Adaptations

In 1991, a radio adaptation was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.

In 1993, BBC Television produced a series based on the book, starring John Thaw and Lindsay Duncan, with appearances from Alfred Molina and James Fleet. Unlike the book, the programme was not well received by critics and was later placed at number ten on a Radio Times list of the worst television programmes ever made, with John Naughton describing it as a "smugathon ... which achieved the near impossible – creating a John Thaw vehicle nobody liked".

Sequels

Toujours Provence (1991)

Encore Provence (1999)

French Lessons (2001)

Cultural influence

Mayle's memoir provided inspiration for the 2008 satirical novel A Year in the Province by Christopher Marsh in which an Andalusian man persuades his wife and his three daughters to relocate to Belfast.