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Product details
- ISBN 9781529976816
- Weight: 750g
- Dimensions: 156 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Ebury Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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A hilarious and heartwarming memoir of Monty Python legend Eric Idle's fifty-year quest to build the perfect home in Provence.
In 1971, two years after the launch of Monty Python's Flying Circus made his comedy troupe global superstars - and made all their lives a little more complicated - Eric Idle decided to buy a ramshackle property in the south of France.
In search of a simpler, quieter life, what followed was a story akin to A Year in Provence, but with more disaster, more heartbreak, more laughs - and much more spam.
A tale spanning a fifty-year quest of home-building, friendship-making and bad-French-learning, Idle in Provence is a hilarious, tender and unforgettable memoir of Eric Idle's very own escape to the country.
Eric Idle is a comedian, actor, author and singer-songwriter who found immediate fame on television with the sketch-comedy show MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS. Following its success, the Pythons began making films that include MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL(1975), MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (1979) and THE MEANING OF LIFE(1983). Eric also wrote the award-winning musical SPAMALOT. He splits his time between Los Angeles and Provence.
