A review by mclent
Mr Finchley Discovers His England by Victor Canning

4.0

Part madcap, part travelogue, Mr. Finchley Discovers His Holiday thrusts a ridiculously average bank employee in 1930s England into increasingly wonderfully contrived and convoluted circumstances like brushes with the British criminal underworld and high speed chases through the countryside. There's more than meets the eye with Mr. Finchley and rest assured, all's well that ends well. With a touch of Walter Mitty, I'm reminded of any number anonymous person thrust into adventure archetypes ranging from Monsieur Hulot to Bilbo Baggins and also Travels With My Aunt.

Writing style and story are firmly of their time. Plenty of English reserve, stiff upper lip, common sense and "I say, Good Man!"