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Title: Mr Finchley Takes the Road (Book 3)
Author: CANNING VICTOR
Format: PAPERBACK
Imprint: PRELUDE BOOKS
Price: $20.00
Publishing status: Active
Book 3 of the classic trilogy of humorous rural adventures through pre-war England.
Mr. Finchley takes a fancy to a horse-drawn caravan that he sees for sale, but his new wife does
not relish the prospect of a caravan journey so goes to visit her brother while he sets out to
explore Kent and go house-hunting. He has various mishaps while learning to handle the horse
and the caravan, and encounters an array of scroungers, eccentrics and country characters and
sees several unsuitable houses.
Meanwhile other people are showing an unnatural interest in his caravan. It gradually emerges
that it contains a secret, and in the ensuing mayhem, Mr. Finchley is imprisoned in an empty
house from which he is rescued by the enterprise of his wife. The house he is rescued from turns
out to be on the market and just right for them.
Jerome K. Jerome meets Mr Bean in this gentle comedy series, which was a runaway bestseller
on first publication in the 1930s and retains a timeless appeal today. It has been dramatised
twice for BBC Radio, with the 1990 series regularly repeated.
Victor Canning was a prolific writer throughout his career, which began young: he had sold
several short stories by the age of nineteen and his first novel, Mr Finchley Discovers His England
(1934) was published when he was twenty-three. Canning also wrote for children: his trilogy The
Runaways was adapted for US children’s television. Canning’s later thrillers were darker and
more complex than his earlier work and received further critical acclaim.
ISBN: 9781788421638