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'Funny, warm and elegiac - LAST OF THE SUMMER WINE meets A Year in Provence' - Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Structured in twelve chapters - January to December - The Hike follows the adventures of three retired friends on their weekly hike - a minimum of ten miles a week, whatever the weather, with verbal sparring and bickering all the way.
There is Don, award-winning screenwriter and self-appointed peacekeeper of the group; Freddy, who spent forty wasted years in a glue factory and is now trying to make up for lost time, and 'Gruppenfuhrer' Phil, a former air-traffic controller with a mission not to grow old.
We encounter a rich array of characters and customs, from a scythe-brandishing farmer to a collector of East German Trabants, from the Dove Dale Dash to the ancient ritual of well dressing.
As the year goes on, the friends' preoccupations unfold and we see Phil's mania for physical activity as a means of fighting time, Freddy's cultivation of the art of onedownmanship, and Don's desire for a peaceful life at almost any price...
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"Funny, warm and elegiac - Last of the Summer Wine meets A Year in Provence" (Sir Ranulph Fiennes)
"A masterpiece ... had me crying with laughter" (Express)
"A minor classic ... You should buy this" (Sunday Times)
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"A masterpiece ... had me crying with laughter" (Express)
"A minor classic ... You should buy this" (Sunday Times)
The first book, by the creator of Dangerfield, The Hike combines three characters set in the mould of ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE (ie tetchy, opionionated, proud to be over sixty-five!) with lyric descriptions of the Peak District countryside and customs. Its gentle humour pervades even the darkest moments yet it is unsentimental in its depiction of rural life - as lived by inhabitants, not weekenders.
Bill Bryson let loose on the Peak District? Gervaise Phinn?
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- PublisherTideswell Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0954687809
- ISBN 13 9780954687809
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages213
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