My Wife's Canary

Miles Maskell has lived a varied and adventurous life and has travelled widely as amply demonstrated in his anecdotes. He has been a City of London wine merchant owned two restaurants and a champagne bar and eventually created a company letting top-of-the-range properties in southern France on behalf of their owners. <br>He has climbed mountains shot wild boar in Poland piloted a 4-seater aircraft of which he was a part-owner parachuted in New Zealand and ridden the Cresta Run in St Moritz. He is also a sculptor. <br>Written as a lighthearted and easy-to-read series of anecdotes this is his autobiography and recounts some of the more entertaining experiences of his life to date as well as a number of amusing incidents encountered by his relations and closest friends. <br>He was born in London where he continues to live having been at school in Cape Town and then at Cambridge University.