Travels With My Aunt

This book follows the story of Henry Pulling, a single, very square early retiree of the British persuasion as he reconnects with his aunt at his mother's funeral, and is soon thereafter pulled into her wild life of international travel and crime.

While I did enjoy the characteristically dry and somewhat absurd British humor, I couldn't stay engaged with the writing or the plot. There's a decent twist at the end.

Who in the world could use a big shake more than the stodgy Henry Pulling? Henry never married and spent his life locked up behind the safe and tedious walls of a bank. Then, at his mother's funeral, Henry met his Aunt Augusta and he was sent spinning out into a world he never knew existed.

Graham Greene is that Graham Greene, he of The Power and the Glory and Our Man in Havana and The Quiet American. So Travels With My Aunt is a totally different Graham Greene. Every chapter had me. I now have a new gloriously inspiring role model for my last years.