La VieFor fans of Peter Mayle, La Vie by 'Britain's finest living nature writer' takes the plunge and buys an old farmhouse deep in the French countryside a perfect slice of sunny escapist joy from the perennial Sunday Times bestseller. The Charente roofs of red terracotta tiles, bleached white walls, windows shuttered against the blaring sun. The baker does his rounds in his battered little white van with a hundred warm baguettes in the back, while a cat