Something to Declare

£8.99

In this latest collecton of essays, culled from a period of over 20 years, his affection for his chosen second country is tangible. Honest, emotive pieces attest to his appreciation of the "Land Without Brussels Sprouts". From his early involvement with France and French culture when he read French at school and university, taught in Rennes for a year, became heavily influenced by Flaubert and other French intellectual schools of thought, through to when he scattered his parent ashes on the Cote Atlantique, Barnes has consistently sought to explore and explain Anglo-French relations.