He's back- and this time it s really serious! Failed rock legend, pickled onion manufacturer, air hostess and euro-entrepreneur George East takes us through another eventful year of his doomed attempts to make a living out of living in rural France. Fleeing from the Mill of the Flea with creditors in hot pursuit, our hero and his long-suffering wife arrive at a rambling manor-house on the vast and brooding stretches of the Normandy marshlands. The cunning plan is to set up a fox sanctuary, chicken farm and arts & crafts commune for the creatively challenged, but the Easts new home soon reveals its grim secrets. A lifeline is offered by a stranger with a scheme to bring the delights of the Great British Pub to homesick expatriates. The George Inn ( Sometimes) will be the first of a chain of hugely successful anglo-pubs stretching from Normandy to Nice and beyond. At least, that s the idea. As the clock ticks towards opening time and final financial meltdown for the ultimate innocent abroad, we encounter another host of improbable-and frankly sometimes unbelievable- characters and situations. The amazing thing is that any of it is true. Will George find fame, fortune and contentment, or has this modern Micawber taken his final drink in the Last Chance Saloon?
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This is a funny, lively account of Normandy life... SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE A sad but funny end to a wonderful series of french anecdotal life... Manche Today
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George East is the founder (and only) member of the George East For The Nobel Prize for Writing Committee. He spends his year living halfway up what counts as a mountain in Brittany, venturing forth to research the history, culture and (mostly) bars and restaurants of other regions of France for new books.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Tony Groom
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A wordsmith, that's how I would describe his books.
I thoroughly enjoyed his latest book `French Lessons'. It takes you though a wide range of emotions, including belly laugh, chuckle as well as exasperation and laugh out loud. George's way with words is second to none. He guides you on a `Bon Voyage' through rural France and almost transports you to a little café enjoying the eccentric behaviour that anyone who has been will instantly recognise. Paragraphs like this are pure genius:
"Veronica is a tall and very generously built blonde lady of middle years. As the French would say, she has plenty of meat on her bones, and has obviously seen much of life. She clearly has a liking for voluminous, flowing and yet revealing garments, and as she swayed across the busy room to join our table I was put in mind of a galleon in full sail, beating its way through a choppy sea."
I absolutely loved it and would recommend it to one and all.
A word of warning though, buy it `Before' you make that move to France.
I thoroughly enjoyed his latest book `French Lessons'. It takes you though a wide range of emotions, including belly laugh, chuckle as well as exasperation and laugh out loud. George's way with words is second to none. He guides you on a `Bon Voyage' through rural France and almost transports you to a little café enjoying the eccentric behaviour that anyone who has been will instantly recognise. Paragraphs like this are pure genius:
"Veronica is a tall and very generously built blonde lady of middle years. As the French would say, she has plenty of meat on her bones, and has obviously seen much of life. She clearly has a liking for voluminous, flowing and yet revealing garments, and as she swayed across the busy room to join our table I was put in mind of a galleon in full sail, beating its way through a choppy sea."
I absolutely loved it and would recommend it to one and all.
A word of warning though, buy it `Before' you make that move to France.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is George's last book in the La Puce series!!! What am I going to read which anywhere competes with his humour, his colourful use of language, his unbelievable (yet probably true) anecdotes? Another belter - just a shame that there are no more to look forward to. Hurry along with your Brittany book George!!
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By G. C. Rudge
Format:Paperback
George has again given the reader an intimate view of his rollercoaster ride into "investing for dummies" whilst living a near idyllic life in France. George tells it like it is, he has a funny, sad and misguided life amongst some of the most implausible characters in France. I never know whether to take his tales seriously and that for me is the enigma and charm that is George East. I don't want clear cut and clinicial story telling, if I did I would subscribe to Readers Digest!. I read George's books because I want to be left wondering, what next and how will he get out of this one! I know one shouldn't laugh at others misfortunes (Mother told me) but I can't help it in Georges case. He is hilarious. I feel sympathy, pain and admiration for the poor long suffering Donella, without whom George would disintegrate.
This book is superb and if George doesn't pick up this series again in the near future I will eat my computer, because surely as I sit here writing this he is embroiled in another comical escapade with his colourful friends.
Go George go!!!!!!!!!!!
This book is superb and if George doesn't pick up this series again in the near future I will eat my computer, because surely as I sit here writing this he is embroiled in another comical escapade with his colourful friends.
Go George go!!!!!!!!!!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pleasant and enjoyable read, not quite as funny as earlier books
I've read all of George East's previous stories of moving to France, and if you've followed the story so far you'll be interested (like I was) in the latest up's and down's of... Read more
Published on 17 Jan 2011 by Mr. Geoffrey Coan
5.0 out of 5 stars
Master George
George East is a master of wit. Read all of his books and follow him and his wife as they navigate their way through life in Normandy with sometimes disastrous but always hilarious... Read more
Published on 22 April 2009 by Dairy Girl
5.0 out of 5 stars
Normandy 0 - George East 5 The Final Battle?
More own goals (all disallowed) as George and his much better half take on French culture with a vengeance. Read more
Published on 13 Dec 2007 by Peter Veale
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Real Treat and a MUST read
If this is really the last book in the series, I am mortally sad.
Probably the truest and funniest series written about life in France and ending with French Lessons which is... Read more
Probably the truest and funniest series written about life in France and ending with French Lessons which is... Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2007 by Fran
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French Lessons.
Without doubt - the best so far. I laughed from begining to end. What a shame that it is the last in the series. Certainly well worth buying. You will not regret it. Read more
Published on 28 Nov 2007 by Tabac Man
5.0 out of 5 stars
french lessons
George East is the litary equivelent of the Fun House at Blackpool, One never stops laughing from start to finish. His books just get better. Well worth buying.
Published on 26 Nov 2007 by susan robinson
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