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From: Free Thinking Doggie
'Character study of an Englishman who has lived a comfortable, happy existence abroad and abruptly must return home to live the end of his life in a native land that is hostile, cold, and unrecognizable to him. Worse, he must attempt to establish some sort of relationship with his daughter, who is the last part of his family, but neither understands the other at all and the exercise is painful. If that sounds depressing, well, it is, but Raban writes so beautifully that his unstinting examination of the essential awkwardness of human relationship is worth the trip.'

Current Thread	Author	Time
Interesting that expats often (IMHO) are better judges of the decline in British ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	17:55:02
>> Johnathan Raban wrote a great novel about a guy who lived in Aden for years. ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	17:59:55
>> 'Character study of an Englishman who has lived a comfortable, happy existence ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	19:02:03
>> I thnk the UK residents are well aware of how the country is being fcuked. They ... [more]	Denc 🗡	18:13:51
>> And every time they go out of their houses there are ever increasing numbers ... [more]	Denc 🗡	18:22:36
>> Foreign Land.	Free Thinking Doggie	18:02:32
>> Expats welcome to comment.	Free Thinking Doggie	17:56:55
>> Tosh, just stuck in some dreamy EM Forster memory.	Hamsterwheel	18:05:02
>> Point is, the longer one leaves it before a visit, the stranger and more ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	18:55:14
>> Yes but you want in frozen in 1988	Hamsterwheel	19:21:33
>> 1988 was good.	Free Thinking Doggie	20:12:14
>> Immigrants though, we know what’s what 😉	Hamsterwheel	18:05:29

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