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Deep in the Dordogne, a book appears in local bookshops: the tale it tells is immediately recognised by four seemingly innocent retired English couples. Different names, but the murky details of their pasts are deadly accurate. Only the writer is a mystery: how much does he know and what does he want? Is the outwardly brainless Michael Bollington really the Lord he claims to be? Did Mark Olson, ageing hippy and animal rights activist, once blow up a scientist in his experimental laboratory? Behind the blandly legalistic exterior of Richard Carter seems to lie a story of blackmail and extortion. And where does debonair, hard-up Johnny McGuire fit in? And the party-giving Sue Brimmington-Smythe? What frightens the four men into ganging up to murder someone only one of them has ever met?
Reality is stranger than fiction in this wicked send up of British immigrants, which won First Prize at the 2003 Cognac Crime Writing Festival in France.
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Praise for Louis Sanders? previous novels: ?This is no jovial cheap-wine depiction of rural France, ? la Peter Mayle, but a subtle, gently misanthropic study of personal disintegration and the harsh realities of many Brits? French dream? Guardian ?The Englishman?s Wife simmers with hidden malice and glee? The Glasgow Herald ?A shrewd, sharp, believable tragicomedy... [with] a whiff of Patricia Highsmith...? Literary Review ?Sanders keenly observes the subtleties of British snobbery? The Times ?A must for anyone who has dreamed of living in France? Sainsbury?s Magazine
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Louis Sanders studied English at the Sorbonne and lived for several years in Britain. An Ignoble Profession is his third novel set among the British community in the Dordogne where he now lives.
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- EditoreSerpents Tail
- Data di pubblicazione2004
- ISBN 10 1852428406
- ISBN 13 9781852428402
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine153
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