The Resurrection of Frédéric Debreu - Alex Marsh

Book giveaway: The Resurrection of Frédéric Debreu

The Resurrection of Frédéric Debreu is a funny, boozy novel that is sure to warm your heart this winter. And we're giving away 10 copies!

Who wants a respectable retirement anyway? Not Ted Prescott, genial visitor to Mailliot le Bois, off on an impulsive mission to seek out his past whilst heroically diminishing the sleepy French town's stocks of red wine.

But once the locals discover Ted's authentic renditions of regional hero Frédéric Debreu's songs, life is suddenly not so straightforward for the stage-shy Derbyshire guitar-maker.

Reluctantly persuaded that he might help put their town back on the map, Ted finds himself billed as humble French farm labourer Edouard Prescote. Nonplussed as his self-conscious performances strike a chord, Ted finds himself drawn into a web of well-intentioned deceit that he finds increasingly hard to unravel.

Haunted by the loss of his missing brother, and with the hopes of an entire community riding on him, Ted soon realises that there are other, more important things that he hasn't mentioned to his loved ones…

"Smart and funny - I love Alex Marsh's writing. It makes me laugh, think and wish I lived in England." - Jill Twiss, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

"Well told, funny and full of expertly-drawn characters. A classic outsider's journey and a knowing examination of man's need to rage against the dying of the light." - Neil Forsyth

Born in Essex, Alex had his first writing job as a teenage columnist for ZX Spectrum Adventurer magazine. Since then, he's written short columns for The Guardian, jokes for BBC Radio and even worked on recruitment material for MI5. Alex's alter-ego blog Private Secret Diary achieved internet fame with its eccentric snapshots of English rural life and formed the backdrop to his first book and memoir, Sex and Bowls and Rock and Roll. His love of the music of Georges Brassens and Jake Thackray was the inspiration for The Resurrection of Frédéric Debreu. With this book, Alex Marsh wanted to write about a lovable man who, spurning the prospect of a respectable retirement, heads off to France to discover the joys of the local chanson and drink too much red wine. And so he wrote it.

The Resurrection of Frédéric Debreu is published by RedDoor Publishing and is available to buy online and from all good booksellers.