A Breath of French Air Iain Pears and when a daring assassination

and when a daring assassination attempt goes wrong

But the local librarian turns a blind eye when she goes there almost every day to gaze at her favourite book

dressed in black

feel-good antidote to troubled times' Kevin Wignall

they must conquer their demons within

A Breath of French Air Iain Pears and when a daring assassinationAnd so at the end of a rainy English August the Larkins all ten of them, including little Oscar, the familys new addition bundle into the old Rolls and cross the Channel to escape the hostile elements. But far from being the balmy, sunny and perfick spot Ma Larkin hoped for, France proves less than welcoming to an eccentric English family. The teas weak, the furniture breakable and the hotel manager is almost as hostile as the wind and the rain theyve