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Description of French Flea Bites

The latest collection of tall tales from master raconteur George East, French Flea Bites takes us through another eventful year in and around the tiny Normandy village of Néhou. Along with the regular cast of members of the Jolly Boys Club and other eccentric villagers and settlers, we meet a man who believes he died in 1979, an English lord who is trying to patent his chain mail underpants, and a lethal cat who becomes a werewolf at full moon. Elsewhere, a genetically mutated muskrat is decimating Reggie and Ronnie’s crayfish gang, and René Ribet (the notorious Fox of Cotentin) is drawing up plans to convert a giant compost heap into Néhou’s answer to The Millennium Dome. Obviously, all is quite normale at The Mill of the Flea.

ABOUT THE SERIES

Millions of people around the world have followed the small adventures of an English couple who realised a common dream and moved across the Channel to begin a new life in France. The Mill of the Flea series chronicles the sometimes bizarre situations and characters encountered by the author and his wife as they find, buy and restore a ruined water mill in a beautiful part of Lower Normandy while struggling to make ends meet - and come to terms with their role as the ultimate ‘innocents abroad’. This much-loved series is sometimes hilarious, sometimes poignant..and always immensely readable.

Title Information

ISBN:

9780952363538

Pages:

170 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

15966

Publisher:

La Puce Publishing

Published:

30/11/-0001

Press and Industry Reviews

'When such experiences are presented by raconteur of George East's stature, few people could fail to ignore all else until the book is devoured to the very last page...'
Living France Magazine

Here’s what some of the tens of thousands of readers who have become ‘Friends of the Flea’ have to say about the series and its author:

"Absolutely enchanting…"
"I just couldn’t stop laughing…"
"George East is a comic genius, and that’s for sure…"
"Funny, sad, and always, always engaging…"
"So true about people and human nature, anywhere in the world.."
"Reading the Mill of the Flea books has been one of the greatest small pleasures in my life.."

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