| LIST B (continued) Three men in a boat “I like work, I find it interesting … I can sit and look at it for hours.” With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends – and Montmorency the dog – decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up to early on a cold, wet morning. This famous book has made people laugh all over the world for a hundred years … and they are still laughing. Brat Farrar “You look exactly like him! You can take the dead boy’s place and no one will ever know the difference. You’ll be rich for life !” And so the plan was born. At first Brat Farrar fought against the idea : it was criminal, it was dangerous. But in the end he was persuaded, and a few weeks later Patrick Ashby came back from the dead and went home to inherit the family fortune. The Ashby family seemed happy to welcome Patrick home, but Brat soon realized that somewhere there was a time-bomb ticking away, waiting to explode … |
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