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A Breath of French Air
- Author
- H.E. Bates
- Narrator
- Philip Franks
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Publish Date
- 1 March 2016
- Run Time
- 4 hours 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Critics Review
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When England’s eccentric Larkin family decides to visit Brittany for a summer holiday, the dissimilarity between British and French culture offers opportunities for hilarity. As narrator, Philip Franks has a friendly, upbeat tone and keeps a steady pace throughout the audiobook. His rendering of the dialogue is where his talents especially shine. Franks provides suitable country dialects for Ma and Pop Larkin, which are particularly entertaining in their feeble attempts to speak French. He is equally successful in portraying the French characters with more convincing French pronunciation than the Larkins demonstrate. Franks adds a lighthearted feel to the novel that makes its fun even more so.
D.M.W., AudioFile
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Details
- Author
- H.E. Bates
- Narrator
- Philip Franks
- Duration
- 4 hours 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 March 2016
- ISBN
- 9781781980026
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Genre
- Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
In the second novel in the Pop Larkin series, the Larkin family descends upon Brittany in France. Like fish out of water, they find that things don’t quite turn out their way: the weather is less than ideal, the food is awful and the hotel is in a bad state of repair. But things slowly improve as Pop manages to sweet-talk Mlle Dupont, Angela Snow and her sister Iris, and Charley and Mariette celebrate their first wedding anniversary. A Breath of French Air is a delightful book full of nostalgia, fun and frivolity.
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