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Live the Dream with a Plaice in the Sun
by Debbie Murray
117 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-2565; ISBN 1-4251-5708-4; US$14.64, C$14.64, EUR10.00, £7.56
Live the Dream with a Plaice in the Sun is a delightful portrait through the adventures of living and working in Spain.
About the Book
Live the Dream with a Plaice in the Sun is a delightful portrait through the adventures of living and working in Spain.
Don't buy in Spain without reading this book first.
A book everybody will enjoy.
It is a serious book about buying and living in Spain but with humour.
In search of sun, sea, humour and laughter while being given advice on your dream home in Spain.
Read all about the Spanish state education through the eyes of a seven year old.
Living the Dream with lighthearted stories while being given advice on your dream home in sunny Spain.
Having been in the property market for a number of years I have the personal experience for the discerning buyer about the procedure of buying in Spain.
Many clients helped make my book come to life with real people and real life situations. What fun and laughter we had while working on the book.
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Reviews
Dear Deb
Having ordered Live the Dream with a Plaice in the Sun on the release date of 14/3/08 I was quite pleased to say the book arrived within the scheduled delivery time of two weeks. I have had a wonderful weekend reading the book. I loved the story about the bank manageress and your client; it was most fascinating and a happy ending by all.
Your book has been the most valuable information I have ever read and as I am in the process of buying abroad it was essential I know all this before proceeding.
The book was very informative, very very funny and down to earth, would be a great help to anyone thinking of buying or holidaying in Spain.
Through spending the whole weekend engrossed in the book, now and again I would burst into laughter when coming across the jokes and I loved the little drawings that went with them.
By the way the rest of the family was desperate to read the book after I had finished with it.
When I have dinner parties I am going to keep this book close to hand for a quick giggle.
Yours sincerely
Marie Crowney
The most adventurous thing many of us are ever likely to do is wave goodbye to the UK and settle down in a foreign country. The prospect of leaving behind loved ones and everything that has been so familiar to us all our lives makes most people shy away from taking the plunge, and they have to content themselves with fantasizing about what might have been.
However lots of us do take that plunge and do our best to embrace Spain, with its challenges of understanding a new and very different language, culture, climate and bureaucracy. Here again, I have seen many people return to the UK after a little while with their dreams in tatters – and their bank balance too!
I remember some years ago standing in the turbulent queue in Ferretería López on Mojácar Playa chatting to another ex-pat who quipped: "Do you know how to leave Spain with a million? Come with two million!"
The best way to avoid failure is to get as much advice and knowledge as you can, as quickly as you can. The really skilful bit is carefully sifting all of this, and ensuring that what's left is correct and relevant to you as an individual.
Debbie Murray is a Liverpool lass who has lived in Spain with her family for around six years now, and has gained a great deal of experience in what it takes to "make a go of it." Having run an estate agency business here in Almería, and with her young daughter attending a local school, she has come across all sorts of situations that can occur as you settle into a new life in the province.
Her new book, Live the Dream with a Plaice in the Sun, is crammed with all sorts of information and background bits and pieces to guide you through purchasing a property or car, paying taxes, education and who to get help from. Written in her own individual and light-hearted style, Debbie gets across some really useful tips, including details for relevant organizations and what to expect when you come up against Spanish bureaucracy.
Debbie does stress in her introduction that her book is intended as a guide for information purposes only; it is not a substitute for professional or legal advice, and can not be a basis for any legal claim against the author. This, of course, applies to all books of this nature, and should be taken well into account by the reader as there is no cut-and-dried situation that I have yet come across in Spain!
Live the Dream with a Plaice in the Sun is a useful and entertaining book by a lively and interesting author. Well worth a look.
Graham Hart
www.levantelifestyle.com
Review from themessengerinspain.com
About the Author
I was born in Liverpool, north England, in 1963.
I had already had my first taste for the publishing industry when ten years of age I wrote a short story for the local paper "Liverpool Echo" and received a two pound postal order through the post.
On leaving school in 1979 I worked for my Auntie Marie and my mum Eileen who both owned hair salons. I decided I wanted my own hair salon and so I opened up a unisex (men and women) salon in 1982. This was a time when men were having their straight hair permed and using unisex salons instead of barbers.
At aged twenty one I cycled with my twin sister 360 miles from Liverpool to Lands End and raised ten thousand pounds for Motor Neurone Disease.
While raising for charity I wrote to George Harrison and Sir Paul McCartney to support my charity work.
George sent me a signed copy of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album and Sir Paul sent a signed song and sketch book of his own work.
Both were raffled off at a charity event.
My best deed was rescuing a girl aged nine, left alone on Lime Street station Liverpool, when one thousand people passed-by unnoticed to the child's dilemma.
A couple of years later from hairdresser I changed my trade to a mini market which I greatly enjoyed. My last venture in England was a public house in the city centre of Liverpool. I never worked for anybody, I was always self employed.
In 2002 I travelled to Spain from England to start an estate agency business.
It was a business I knew because I had some experience of selling property in the late eighties in-between businesses.
I now live in Spain with my husband Richard and daughter Chloe.
The author would like to thank the following people for helping to bring this book to life:
Legal Advisor Antonio J Torres Ruiz www.asesoriatorres.com
Bank Manageress Ana Maria Simon Jerez www.bankinter.com
Travellers Author John Harrison www.literaryconsultancy.co.uk
Liverpool Echo, 1987.
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