French Cricket – George East
Once upon a time, former night club bouncer, seamstress and professional bedtester George East and his wife Donella fled to Normandy to escape their creditors and try to live off their wits in a foreign land. George’s first book (‘Home & Dry in France’) told the hilarious story of the couple’s first attempts to make a new life in a rural region where time is cheap, and reluctant tractors are started on a frosty morning with a shot of moonshine apple brandy. 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. For a full biography, please visit George East - Author Page. |
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Once upon a time, former night club bouncer, seamstress and professional bedtester George East and his wife Donella fled to Normandy to escape their creditors and try to live off their wits in a foreign land. George’s first book (‘Home & Dry in France’) told the hilarious story of the couple’s first attempts to make a new life in a rural region where time is cheap, and reluctant tractors are started on a frosty morning with a shot of moonshine apple brandy. Nobody was more surprised than the author (or perhaps his bank manager) when the book was an instant success, and response to demands from an army of enthusiastic readers (and the bank manager!) saw the start of the long-running and hugely popular Mill of the Flea Chronicles. ‘French Cricket’ is the fifth book in what has become a cult series, and follows our accident- prone hero through a long summer in Lower Normandy as he encounters an increasingly bizarre collection of characters, situations and events. |
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Expat Tales | Keith Eckstein June 17, 2010