Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Paul Torday

ISBN 0753821788(978-075-382178-7)
RRP $22.99 january 2008
Phoenix Paperback (198 x 129)

This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary-notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in Trout and Salmon. Finding himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen, it is a project that will change his life and the course of British political history forever. With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters - including a visionary Sheikh, a weaselly spin doctor, Fred's devilish wife and a few thousand transplanted salmon - SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN is a novel about hypocrisy and bureaucracy, dreams and deniability and the transforming power of faith and love.

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