Teresa Waugh (review date 4 May 1991)
SOURCE: "Time for the Return of the Native," in The Spectator, Vol. 266, No. 8495, May 4, 1991, pp. 32-3.
[Below, Waugh faults Toujours Provence as patronizing and labored.]
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear, where do I begin? For I too have lived in France and come away from it with a view as different from Peter Mayle's as chalk is from cheese. Or, as he might say, as over-ripe camembert is from processed Edam, for his humour is nothing if not laboured. Listen to this [from Toujours Provence]:
...Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1996 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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