Found on a train from Chester and decided to give it a whirl.

The problem is that the idea behind the book is pretty mundane, something any one of us could probably do, finances and desire permitting. This meant that I couldn't entirely trust what I was being told, that he hadn't felt the need to add his own comic twist and exaggerate. Whilst I enjoyed parts of this book, his attempts to move the piano to France in a van immediately springs to mind, at the same time it felt forced or more accurately part of a stand up routine. I found it refreshing that he tried to integrate himself into the native community with all its cultural mix-ups rather than simply mix with fellow ex-pats.

I enjoyed Hawks writing and I read large parts of it with a smile on my face but ultimately I only found this an OK read.

Left in the waiting room Buxton bound for someone else to hopefully enjoy.

To the finder:-
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