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Two Suitcases and a Dog
by Finnbar Mac Eoin
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18th March, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-906018-87-0
Price: €15
Two Suitcases And A Dog is not about coming to Provence, buying a 3 million euro house, spending summer visiting vineyards, eating out in expensive restaurants and complaining about tradesmen.
No, this is the tradesman speaking about his real life drama of arriving in France from NZ without a word of the language and virtually penniless. It’s about being declared homeless by the French Government and all because of his love of a dog which he refused to put in quarantine. Thus exiling himself and his Kiwi wife, until he either smuggled the foxie into Britain, or waited for her to die. Other than a free meal at a restaurant on their first night in France, they did not eat out again for four years, because of their poverty line existence. Read how they worked both the system and their way to Provence, where they now live next door to Pierre Cardin, in what can only be described as an idyllic abode of the Lacoste Luberon.
Mac Eoin has been through the mill and felt the weight of the stone on occasion, but never despaired, or gave up. Let him now guide you through a nightmare, which became a dream.
“Finn Mac Eoin is one of the great raconteurs and larger than life characters of our time, a holdover from a bygone era when people would spontaneously burst forth in rhyme, tale and song. With this book he proves that not just on the tongue but also on the page, MacEoin breathes life into language.” - Daniel Adel, Editor-in-Chief, The Figbone, Lacoste, France.
“I love his honesty. The zany character that emerges from the pages is a delight. I love your honesty. It is a great yarn and some of the stories in the book are so mad, he couldn’t make them up.” - Yanky Faschler. Writer
