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A Year in Provence (Penguin)
Peter Mayle’s A Year in Provence has sparked a million copycat narratives of the idyllic and sometimes riotous (only ever hilarious rather than destructive) life English ex-pats can un/reasonably expect if they decamp to la belle France. From time to time I am a sucker for this type of jolly escapism, but as a genre these stories often leave one with a curious feeling of jealous disillusionment: jealous of the vin, pain et campagne, disillusioned with the idea that this could ever be one’s own reality.
When I picked up Gully Wells’ The House in France (2011) from a charity shop in Penicuik for the princely sum of 50p, I was expecting just such a narrative. Gently seductive, a little mild lifestyle pornography: the word ‘memoir’ in the title bespoke as much as the subject matter. But Gully’s life, ramshackle and chaotic and tinged with anger and violence and love, certainly wasn’t cosy – though the vin and pain are copious, along with the bouillabaisse, ormandes and the huitres. Money must have been plentiful – the Wells/Ayers household certainly seemed to live like it was.
The House in France (Bloomsbury)
The book, or Gully’s life – however you see it – has a stellar cast: Martin Amis as a
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Ms. Gully Wells
Brooklyn, NY
Gully Wells was born in Paris and educated in London. She attended La Sorbonne and studied ‘L’Histoire de la Civilization Francaise.’ She graduated from Oxford University with a bachelor’s degree in modern history.
She worked at Weidenfeld & Nicolson publishers in London as an editor and as the director of publicity, working with a number of authors, including Chaim Herzog, the former President of Israel, Kurt Waldheim, Joachim Fest, Harold Wilson, David Irving, Edna O’Brien, Saul Bellow, Simone Signoret, and Francoise Giroud. In New York, Ms. Wells worked for the New York Times Company and later joined Harold Evans as one of the founding editors of the Condé Nast Traveler magazine where she was features editor as well as a senior staff writer. Her features focused mainly on the historical, political and cultural aspects of the destinations she visited, including Russia, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, France, China, Italy, Germany, Estonia, Chile, Germany, and most islands in the Caribbean.Since then, Ms. Wells has continued writing. Her widely reviewed memoir The House in France was published by Alfred A. Knopf in New York and by Bloomsbury in London in 2011. She has written for several publications, amon