Twelve Camels For Your Wife

[dearsley]

Hello Everyone. Glad the forum has re-opened. I'm sure it's hard work but invaluable to expats. I have written a book about my 49-year love affair with Turkey. The title is above in the subject box and the book is on Amazon as a paperback or e book. Today author and prolific blogger Jack Scott, who some of you may recall wrote a very funny book about his expat life in Bodrum called Perking the Pansies sent me this review of Camels.

George Dearsley isn’t the first Brit to fall for Turkey and he certainly won’t be the last. But his account of a longstanding love affair with the country is a real delight – an astute, beautifully-penned story of an Englishman abroad. What starts as a madcap road trip to Japan in a royal blue Bedford van, twists and turns, anecdote by anecdote, into an entertaining and touching tale of a courtship with the land he now calls home. It made me feel so nostalgic for my own times past. There are some very funny and well-observed scenes about things that many expats will instantly relate to: the unfathomable bureaucracy, the language mishaps, the surprising customs. And there are some wonderful turns of phrases (‘We came, we saw, we conkered. The area was awash with chestnut trees.’). But it’s his depiction of the Turkish people, the friendships he makes along the way and ultimately his affection for a small village 40km northeast of Selçuk (‘There were many more horses and donkeys than cars’) that tugs at the heartstrings. Funny, insightful and poignant.

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