Rating: 3/5
Review
A little too much of a good thing
I enjoyed the first of this trilogy (Mr Finchley Discovers His
England) but I have run into diminishing returns in the later two
books.
In Mr Finchley Takes
The Road, the engaging and ultimately redoubtable Mr F. has a
dramatic change in domestic circumstances and tours Kent in a
horse-drawn caravan. It’s fine in its way and if you’ve read Mr
Finchley Discovers His England you’ll know pretty much what to
expect: loving descriptions of the English countryside, amusing and
eccentric characters, malfeasance vanquished...and so on. It’s
enjoyable, gentle stuff and an easy read, but for me one book of it
was sufficient, so while there’s nothing wrong with this one, it
all felt a little familiar and it didn’t quite hold my interest.
Other readers
plainly don’t agree and found Mr Finchley Takes The Road as
enjoyable as the first two books so don’t let me put you off, but
personally I can only give it a rather qualified recommendation.
(My thanks to
Farrago for an ARC via NetGalley.)
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