French Kisses

George and Donella East live in what is left of a picturesque if mostly ruined water mill in Normandy. Millions of readers around the world have followed the couple's often bizarre adventures in rural France and on the ten acres of meadows, woodland, waterways and mud at the Mill of the Flea.

French Kisses finds the Easts facing a year of possibly terminal debt as the former professional bed-tester and now writer, philosopher and would-be entrepreneur stumbles through the rice pudding of life in a sometimes very foreign land.

In French Kisses, the ultimate innocent abroad encounters another array of weird characters and situations as the notorious Fox of Cotentin nobbles the local chicken show, and a fishing boat disguised as a carrot runs aground in a village square. Elsewhere, a Parisian clock-repairer poses as the Prince of Darkness, while a synchronised drinking team clashes with the baton-dropping champions of all Normandy. There's also the descendant of Nostradamus who makes his predictions after rather than before the event.

If you like to laugh at life and the foibles and follies of human nature anywhere, just relax, pucker up and enjoy some affectionate embraces from a master story-teller

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