Article: Mayes returns to native South: In her first novel, `Tuscan Sun' author introduces readers to her first home.

Byline: Nancy Pate

From her tall Tuscan house Frances Mayes can look down the terraced hillside covered with fruit and olive trees to a white-pebbled road, where on some days as many as a hundred strangers gather to look up.

They have come to see Bramasole, the old house that Mayes bought more than a decade ago and which stars in her best-selling memoirs ``Under the Tuscan Sun,'' ``Bella Tuscany'' and ``In Tuscany.'' Many of the visitors carry well-worn copies of the books, comparing Mayes' sensuous descriptions of the landscape with its reality. They point out a passage, then a view. They take pictures. They have picnics.

"They seem to be ...

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