NEW BOOK DESCRIBED AS A
YEAR IN PROVENCE MEETS THE BEACH MEETS THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN MOLE AGED 13 3/4
The year is
1994 and longtime Francophile, undergraduate and hapless romantic Ben spends a
year split between teaching English to rowdy teenagers in Cannes and taking
orders from their topless mums on a beach in St. Tropez.
Mediterranean Homesick Blues is The Catcher in The Rye set
in Coventry and the Côte d’Azur - written from the point of view of a repressed
and charmingly naive Englishman. A diary of life-affirming disasters against a
backdrop of the glamour and grime of the French Riviera. It chronicles one
man’s attempts to love and understand the French, acts of serial romanticism,
the use of the subjunctive mood as well as the quest for the ultimate sandwich.
It is a year in the life of someone you’ve never heard of.
Together with Enzo Cilenti, Ben
Chatfield has created an honest, original and disarmingly funny book that
defies easy categorisation. The humorous diary of a year- long odyssey into
both manhood and the French way of life, it’s also a savvy and refreshingly
different kind of guidebook - you won’t find a top ten list of restaurants
anywhere, but you will find a list of the most boring French literary classics.
“My year abroad was one of the happiest and most
formative of my life and Ben Chatfield's witty and insightful book brought a
lot of those memories flooding back.” Alistair Campbell, former Labour party
Director of Communications and Ex-Language Assistant.
You can order your copy from Amazon, as well as all good bookshops!
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