Home & Dry in France: A Year in Purgatory Contributor(s): East, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 095236350X ISBN-13: 9780952363507 Publisher: La Puce, OUR PRICE: $11.93 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Travel | Europe - France - Humor | Form - Anecdotes & Quotations |
Series: Mill of the Flea |
Physical Information: 0.37" H x 5.08" W x 7.8" (0.38 lbs) 172 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: THE FUNNIEST BOOK ON LIVING IN FRANCE, EVER. In this hilarious collection of cautionary tales and anecdotes, George East, is the first writer to discuss all the delights and drawbacks of finding, buying and restoring French property. Home & Dry in France follows the early adventures of George and Donella East as they make every mistake in the (not-then-written) book about how and how not to buy a second home across the Channel. Tellingly subtitled A Year In Purgatory, the book is much more than a listing of all the awful pitfalls awaiting the innocent abroad: it is the hilarious and always entertaining account of how a couple set out with a dream...and came close to turning it in to a nightmare. This book is not a pale imitation of what has gone before. It is the first of its kind. It is of high quality in content as well as writing by a very experienced author. George is clearly one of the funniest writers of this age. TRY IT And let us know what you think on this page. As it happened, and as our new agent Mark Berridge was eager to point out, there had been several minor drawbacks affecting the straight forward purchase of the cottage. One of them being the potential appearance of the original owner's eldest son in a bath towel in the lounge on alternate weekday nights. Which provided yet another valuable reminder of the diversity, complexity and sometimes apparent bloody-mindedness of French property laws. One of the many dating back to the Reign of Terror - and still consistently terrorising unwary and uninformed foreign purchasers - this particular beauty aimed to stop property falling back into the clutches of the accursed aristo minority. |