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S'està carregant… French Fried: one man's move to France with too many animals and an identity thief (2010 original; edició 2010)de Chris Dolley
Informació de l'obraFrench Fried: One Man's Move to France with Too Many Animals and an Identity Thief de Chris Dolley (2010)
  
Top Five Books of 2014 (649) No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  rodneyvc | May 19, 2021 |    Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . ) cjsdg | Nov 20, 2014 | Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing .Das Buch war ein gutes Lese-Erlebnis, aber ich habe etliche Rechtschreibefehler entdeckt. Vielleicht wäre es hilfreich, wenn man einen deutschsprachigen Lektor benutzt! Having a native german editor might have helped with some of the very obvious spelling, grammar and style errors. (  ) yukon92 | Jul 23, 2013 | Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . MariekeM | Jun 12, 2013 | Ressenya escrita per a Crítics Matiners de LibraryThing . ) Kaysbooks | May 9, 2013 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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HTML: Animals behaving badly, other people's misfortunes and the most bizarre true crime story ever. International bestseller, French Fried, is the unfortunately true account of Chris Dolley's first eight months in France and has been described as 'A Year in Provence with Miss Marple and Gerald Durrell. Just when Chris and Shelagh think nothing more could possibly go wrong, they discover that Chris's identity has been stolen and their life savings - all the money from their house sale in England that was going to finance their new life in France - had disappeared. A bank account had been opened in Chris's name in Spain to take the proceeds. Then they're abandoned by the police forces of four countries who all insist the crime belongs in someone else's jurisdiction. The French say it's an Irish crime as that's where the money was held. The Irish say it's French as that's where all the correspondence came from. The British say it's nothing to do with them even though forged British passports were used to open the bank account in Spain. And the Spanish are on holiday - and can't even think about investigating any bank account for at least four weeks. So Chris has to solve the crime himself. But unlike fictional detectives he has an 80 year-old mother-in-law and an excitable puppy who insist they come along if he's going anywhere interesting - like a stakeout. .No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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French Fried starts off heading towards the second camp, but then launches into a second story that involves the detection and investigation of a case of identity theft.
I found the the second story more engaging. I feared that the first story would lapse into the hapless and bumbling sort, particularly as the confessed language skills were barely adequate. However they seem to make the effort to come up to speed.
At times I thought that the slightly jokey story telling style worked overly hard to turn thin material into something more substantial.