Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #440841 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-01
• Binding: Paperback
• 222 pages

Synopsis
The author spent most of his professional life in marketing, firstly with the electrical appliance division of Thorn EMI, where he was marketing director of their four brands, Bendix, Kenwood, Moffat and Tricity. His later years were with Dutch Multi-national, Philips Electronics, when he was responsible for their personal care products in the UK, including the Philishave brand. Adrian, with his wife Meryl, first went to the Turkish Cypriot area of Cyprus on holiday in 1989 and made frequent visits thereafter. In 1999, they decided to try living there following Adrian's retirement the previous year.After over two years renting a villa in Bellapais, a place made famous by Lawrence Durrell in his book "Bitter Lemons", they bought some land in the nearby village of Ozankoy, about two miles to the easy of Kyrenia and built their home. Packed with information and comment about Cypriots and all things Cypriot, this book is also a widely-ranging account of their experiences before and after settling in the northern part of this ever-fascinating island.

Processing steadily through the pages are many interesting and amusing characters both Cypriot and British, the latter chiefly resident ex-pats, all of whom are treated with the utmost sympathy and affection.

Customer Reviews

my Father, the author
yes my father is Adrian Fleetwood, the writer of this very amusing anecdote about his and Meryl's life in North Cyprus.

My father is and always has been a very good story teller and has that wonderful way of being able to have you in hysterics even before he gets to the punchline.
As a child he would regale me with tales about his childhood growing up in the war in Derby and catapulting stones with his brother onto the next door neighbours tin bath and then diving for cover,scrumping apples and being the general 'Just William 'character in the neighbourhood. Hence his book is only a reflection of his brilliant observations and his love of fun which continues to this day.

Having been out to visit both Adrian and Meryl several times , the story just continues with all the wonderful colourful characters he brings to life so vividly.

Adrian Fleetwood is this century's Gerald Durrell,long may he write.