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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (Unabridged)

Paul Torday
Read by John Sessions, Samantha Bond, Fenella Woolgar

A RICHARD & JUDY'S SUMMER READ 2007 TITLE
MULTI-VOICE RECORDING - UNABRIDGED - FEATURING ANDREW
MARR
Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

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This is the story of a hen-pecked, slightly pompous, middle-aged scientist who finds himself caught up in what seems like an impossible project, and of how this project changes his life. In the process he becomes an unlikely, and rather loveable hero, discovers true love for himself, finds himself both a pawn and then a victim of political spin, leaves his brilliantly horrible wife, and learns to believe in the impossible.

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'Paul Torday's bizarrely moral debut offers whimsy, sitcom humour, numerous swipes at the two-faced carry on of egocentric politicians - including a joke, Blair-like prime minister - and more than a love song to the noble art of angling as practised by dreamers and romantics. it also suggests that anything can be attempted, providing someone is willing to pay.'

Eileen Battersby

IRISH TIMES (3.2.07)

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen  (Unabridged)

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Running Time: 10 hours
Unabridged
ISBN-10: 0752888692
ISBN-13: 9780752888699
Publication: February 2007
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