Patric Juillet's Memoirs of A Sardine Lover Review

(prHWY.com) July 20, 2011 - San Diego, CA -- Patric Juillet's Memoirs of a Sardine Lover (link) - When looking for a summer read, look no further than this coming of age story, written for everyone from 8 to 88.

In writing this comic novel the author, Patric Juillet, reveals the mystifying and enjoyable world of Fanfan Renaud, a resourceful teenager, who feverishly schemes to get adopted by a pair of opera singers as his own parents ignore him. But as the best plans have a way of getting undone, he needs to enlist the Gods from Mount Olympus in his quest to make the world a better place and invents his own religion in the process. Of course, there is a bigger story in that novel, part one of a trilogy, and that's for you to find out as I couldn't possibly reveal the ending.

The protagonist of this tale, Fanfan Renaud, almost 13, spends the incoming Provencal summer feverishly scheming, daydreaming, dancing with the Gypsies, eating sardines and anointing his plethora of private goddesses...

A small fishing village in the south of France, circa 1963: "Once upon a time there was this precocious kid who, having been abandoned by both his mother and father and hastily parked at a young age at his aunt's seasonal hotel, plotted to have himself (and his faithful bulldog, Youki) adopted by Hugo and Nina, an immensely talented and well known opera singers duo. When looking for a summer read, look no further than this coming of age story, written for everyone from 8 to 88. In writing this comic novel the author reveals the mystifying and enjoyable world of Fanfan Renaud, a resourceful teenager, who feverishly schemes to get adopted by a pair of opera singers as his own parents ignore him. But as the best plans have a way of getting undone, he needs to enlist the Gods from Mount Olympus in his quest to make the the world a better place and invents his own religion in the process. Of course, there is a bigger story in that novel, part one of a trilogy.

Memoirs of a Sardine Lover is a classic coming of age story of the precocious twelve year old Fanfan Renaud... and yet it is so very much more. Mr Juillet tells of a time in the not too distant past when boys had fabulous outdoor adventures daily... sometimes hourly! And Fanfan has the perfect place for these wonderful adventures - the coast of Province where he has been unceremoniously left with his Aunt who runs a seasonal hotel. His faithful protector Youki, the bulldog, stays by his side as he goes on these escapades. His friends join him in building boats, climbing mountains & dancing with gypsies; employees and vendors of the hotel give him assistance and the townspeople look on with amusement. Through it all Fanfan longs for a real home, with both mother and father, and he plots to get exactly what he wants- to be adopted by the famous Opera singing duo who visit the hotel each summer.

Mr. Juillet interweaves this story with Fanfan's inner tumultuous and often humorous

If you like food, lunacy and life in Province as it once was, then "Memoirs of a Sardine Lover (link) " it's for you.

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