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French Fried: one man's move to France…
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French Fried: one man's move to France with too many animals and an identity thief (original 2010; udgave 2010)

af Chris Dolley

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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.

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Titel:French Fried: one man's move to France with too many animals and an identity thief
Forfattere:Chris Dolley
Info:Book View Cafe (2010), Kindle Edition
Samlinger:Ønskeliste
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French Fried: One Man's Move to France with Too Many Animals and an Identity Thief af Chris Dolley (2010)

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    A Year in Provence af Peter Mayle (codehooligans)
    codehooligans: Similar story lines. Brits more to France in the early 1990s. The stories are all about settling in and discovery of you near area.
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    Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris af Sarah Turnbull (rodneyvc)
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    A Year in the Merde af Stephen Clarke (rodneyvc)
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This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
Books about English escaping to France seem to be divided into two camps - those who seek to escape the evils of English winters for sunny France but then make no effort to learn the language and social mores and continually mock the vagaries and idiocy of French bureaucracy, to those who make the effort to enculturate, but still mock the vagaries and idiocy of French bureaucracy.

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.
  rodneyvc | May 19, 2021 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
Sort of the rambling relative version of a Gerald Durrell or James Herriot at first, then turns into first person true crime. There is definitely a story here, but it really only begins halfway through the book. The author can definitely turn a funny phrase, but also includes two other attempts for each successful line. Probably not enough material for a book, which is too bad, because it would make for a great article or two. ( )
  cjsdg | Nov 20, 2014 |
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Absolutely loved the book. I laughed tears through many parts. Having lived in Europe and having been to other parts of the world I can fully understand the problems this newly transplanted "Frenchmen" had w/the government and the daily life in their new home country.
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 |
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mir hat die Geschichte gut gefallen, allerdings werde ich sehen das ich mir das Buch in der Bibliothek im original besorgen kann, da mir die deutsche Uebersetzung gar nicht gefallen hat. Die Ubersetzung wirkt sehr leihenhaft und steif. Ich bin gespannt wie es im original ist.
  MariekeM | Jun 12, 2013 |
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
Wer Bücher über Menschen sucht, die in der Fremde ihr Glück suchen, aber aufgrund ihrer Schussligkeit und liebenswerten Naivität sowie ihrer tolpatschigen, aber o so drolligen Haustiere allerlei Widrigkeiten erleben, ganz zu schweigen von den Merkwürdigkeiten Menschen anderer Länder immer wieder überrascht werden, der liegt hier sicherlich richtig. Mir war aber diese Anhäufung von Missgeschicken und Ungeschicken schon nach 10 Seiten zu viel. Die Übersiedlung von England nach Frankreich erwies sich in diesem Buch zu einer Abfolge absurder, unglaubwürdiger und überzogener Ereignisse, die mir jeden Lesespaß nahmen. Hinzu kam noch die schlechte Rechtschreibung! Warum wird in einem frisch erschienenen Buch noch die alte deutsche Rechtschreibung verwendet?? Und auch noch mit so vielen Fehlern gewürzt? So, lustig Bücher über Menschen mit Tieren in fremden Ländern sein mögen; dies war mehr ein Griff in eines der vielen Klos, die das neue Haus in Frankreich zählt. ( )
  Kaysbooks | May 9, 2013 |
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Travel. True Crime. Nonfiction. Humor (Nonfiction.) 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.

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