A Good Year

Chasing Cezanne: A Novel

Author: Peter Mayle

From Peter Mayle, a wonderful new novel steeped in wine—and the business of wine-and set in, bien sur, Provence.Max Skinner is not exactly setting the London financial world on fire-and when his supervisor steals his biggest client, it’s definitely time to inspect the vineyard in Provence that his recently departed uncle left him. Heartily and happily distracted upon his a….Read More

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