{"id":358,"date":"2004-10-26T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2004-10-26T00:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2004-10-26T00:08:07","modified_gmt":"2004-10-26T00:08:07","slug":"a_good_year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"A Good Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0375405917\/103-7471063-6903049?v=glance\"><b>A Good Year<\/b><\/a>, Peter Mayle brings readers back to his beloved Provence which fans of his, having read the highly successful <b>A Year in Provence<\/b>, <b>Encore Provence<\/b>, and <b>Toujours Provence<\/b>, should be familiar with.<br \/>\nThe story revolves round high-powered British financial executive Max Skinner who in the course of one day, finds himself out of a job, and also the inheritor of a 20-hectare vineyard and large country house in Provence left to him by his uncle who has just passed away. Having nothing left for him in London, he decides to pack his bags for Provence to oversee the running of the vineyard and the house.<br \/>\nHe soon grows to love the Provencal sun, the unhurried and relaxing pace of life in the French countryside, and the warmth of the people in the village. Amidst all these, a little scheme is brewing in the vineyard. Discover what Max unearths in this breezy book which is befitting for a light summer&#8217;s read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest novel A Good Year, Peter Mayle brings readers back to his beloved Provence which fans of his, having read the highly successful A Year in Provence, Encore Provence, and Toujours Provence, should be familiar with. The story &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/?p=358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-literature-writings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dimsumdolly.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}