The hilarious true story of two pensioners and their whippet who sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of France in a narrowboat...
Terry Darlington was brought up in Pembroke Dock during the war,
between a Sunderland flying boat base and an oil terminal.
He survived and moved to Staffordshire, where he founded Research
Associates, the international market research firm, and Stone
Master Marathoners, the running club.
Like many Welshmen he is talkative and confiding, but ill at ease
with practical matters and liable to linger in public houses.
He likes boating but knows nothing about it.
Monica Darlington comes from Radnorshire.Her father was a gardener
and her mother a housemaid, or perhaps it was the other way
round.
She has a first class degree in French, has run thirty marathons,
and can leap tall buildings with a single bound.
Her three children have all reproduced themselves, removing doubts
about whether she and Terry are the same species.
She quite likes boating but knows nothing about it.
Brynula Great Expectations (Jim) is sprung from a long line of dogs
with ridiculous names.
Jim can run at forty miles an hour.He is cowardly, thieving, and
disrespectful and hates boating.
Visit their website at www.narrowdog.com
A richly atmospheric journey suffused with summer heat and
occasional cabin fever, reaching its climax on the flamingo-studded
inland sea of the Camargue... The writing is as muscular and lean
as its canine hero, conjuring up dawn mist or giant catfish in
prose haiku before moving on to the next killer one-liner... A rich
and winning comic debut, destined to become a classic of the
downshifting genre
*Sunday Telegraph*
A stunning book - racy, chatty, touching and very, very funny
*Joanna Lumley*
The most amazing canal journey of them all
*Daily Mail*
One of my favourite books of the year
*Saga Magazine*
An astonishing read
*Radio 4 Midweek*
A richly atmospheric journey suffused with summer heat and
occasional cabin fever, reaching its climax on the flamingo-studded
inland sea of the Camargue... The writing is as muscular and lean
as its canine hero, conjuring up dawn mist or giant catfish in
prose haiku before moving on to the next killer one-liner... A rich
and winning comic debut, destined to become a classic of the
downshifting genre * Sunday Telegraph *
A stunning book - racy, chatty, touching and very, very funny --
Joanna Lumley
The most amazing canal journey of them all * Daily Mail *
One of my favourite books of the year -- Emma Soames * Saga
Magazine *
An astonishing read -- Libby Purves * Radio 4 Midweek *
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