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Catching The Sun (2012)

by Tony Parsons(Favorite Author)

3.06 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

000732779X (ISBN13: 9780007327799)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

review 1: Living in Phuket I was interested to read this novel, which is based in Phuket at the time of the 2004 tsunami. Besides the many instances of him getting the culture, the geography and the 'scene' completely wrong, it was overall poorly written. The characters were flat, the plot turns far-fetched or just plain silly. Don't recommend, especially for those who live in or know Phuket! I think Parsons phoned this one in...
review 2: Just how badly do you want to find paradise? When taxi driver Tom Finn is almost jailed for confronting two burglars in his own home, he leaves broken Britain and takes his wife and children to live on the tropical island of Phuket, Thailand. Phuket is all the Finn family dreamed of - a tropical paradise where the children swim with el... moreephants, the gibbons sing love songs in the jungle, the Andaman Sea is like turquoise glass and this young family is free to grow. But both man-made disaster and the unleashed forces of nature shatter this tropical idyll. Catching the Sun is a gripping, moving story of a family who go in search of Paradise -- and end up discovering themselves. less

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