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Novels based in the South of France

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MinnieMountain · 22/08/2025 06:24

I’m looking for novels set in the south of France. I’m going there next month for a long weekend.

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Rocknrollstar · 22/08/2025 17:31

Bonjour Tristesse
A Year in Provence

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MinnieMountain · 22/08/2025 17:19

I’ll be in Cassis.

Tender is the Night is clearly worth trying. I don’t normally like F Scott Fitzgerald.

Thank you for the other ideas. I’m also not particularly into crime, unless it’s Agatha Christie.

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fluffiphlox · 22/08/2025 13:01

If you are on the Riviera, then it has to be ‘Tender is the Night’, as others have suggested.

Skissors · 22/08/2025 12:59

Perfume by Patrick Suskind winds up in the South of France.

I was not over wowed by it but lots do love it.

Holy Fools by Joanne Harris is set on Noirmoutier- does that count as South of France? Anyway I want to go there.

AmusedCat · 22/08/2025 09:22

Also, The Darac series by Peter Morfoot, set in Nice are very good

AmusedCat · 22/08/2025 09:14

The series by M L Longworth, all set in and around Aix En Provence. They're crime but the setting is so beautifully described

crowstreet · 22/08/2025 09:09

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crowstreet · 22/08/2025 09:09

Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden
If you like spy stories - Box 88 by Charles Cummings

yourefunningme · 22/08/2025 09:07

Radiatorvalves · 22/08/2025 08:48

Love Bruno but I don’t think of the Dordogne as the south of France! Kate Mosse is fab especially if you’re between carcassonne and the Pyrenees.

Ha - yes, fair one!

Radiatorvalves · 22/08/2025 08:48

Love Bruno but I don’t think of the Dordogne as the south of France! Kate Mosse is fab especially if you’re between carcassonne and the Pyrenees.

EggCounter · 22/08/2025 08:26

Agree with the Sybille Bedford and F Scott Fitzgerald. Also Bonjour Tristesse by Francois Sagan, La gloire de mon père by Pagnol, Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk. Lettres de mon moulin by Daudet.

Decorhate · 22/08/2025 08:12

A Fatal Inheritance by Rachel Rhys

WonderingWanda · 22/08/2025 07:48

Labyrinth by Kate Mosse

The Beekeepers promise by Fiona Valpy (I think it's the South of France).

yourefunningme · 22/08/2025 07:41

Martin Walker’s Bruno series (set in the Dordogne) is heaven, particularly if you know the area.

Laska2Meryls · 22/08/2025 07:27

The Artist , Lucy Steeds

Radiatorvalves · 22/08/2025 07:27

Do you like crime? If so the Jacquot detective series by Martin O’Brien.

Whereabouts in the south? That may hone it down.

Charitygirl1 · 22/08/2025 07:18

A Compass Error by Sybille Bedford

lyingonthebeach · 22/08/2025 07:17

Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald.