“I have lived at various times in London, New York, Devon, Barbados and the Bahamas. They moved to Long Island in south-eastern New York for four years in what sounds a very glamorous solution. Privacy became almost impossible and on one occasion he found a tabloid photographer lurking in the bushes around the pool, apparently hoping to “see someone naked”.įinally, he had to sell up. Complete strangers would wander through the garden, some even taking a dip in the pool. So popular was the book, the house was under siege by a constant stream of uninvited callers and autograph hunters. But while renovating their Ménerbes house Mayle, now 70, became so fascinated by the character of Provence and the larger than life characters, that instead of a novel, he wrote a few opening pages of a diary and sent them to his agent who, fortunately, knew a gem when he saw one. His original intention was to write a novel, they had enough cash for six months.
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