Cross and Poppy: A Village Tale - Couverture souple

Wemyss, G MW

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1493746707 ISBN 13 : 9781493746705

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

Trollopean clerics, comic peers with hidden depths, the villagers of a thousand cosy English novels … but in a very modern world: our own. The Woolfonts are the prettiest and most placid villages in England. There’s a Free School; a real-ale pub; a district XI that sweeps all before it; three splendid old churches; and the duke of Taunton presiding in a kindly way over it all – and he’s not, actually, the light comedy turn he chooses to pretend to be. There’s a celebrated restaurant, as well, run by the celebrated ‘Hipster Chef’, and he’s not the only village celebrity: there’s also his same-sex partner, a former Man City striker; and a former England cricketer; and a pretty Hon. – no rebel, she – who runs the Woolbury Stud; and there’s Sher Mirza, English and Music master at the Free School: a devastatingly handsome British Pakistani who’s an acknowledged and expert scholar of English choral and church music … and a devout Muslim. There’s nothing wanting in the Woolfonts save a new Rector. They get him, a young, absurdly attractive Anglo-Catholic priest and recent widower from the Midlands, Fr Noel Paddick. The villagers and gentry also get a spate of death, bigotry, persecution, fire, storms, and attempted murder. And they certainly didn’t anticipate an unlikely love triangle, or that a bittersweet attachment – bringing both pain and grace to the new Rector and the English master alike – should play out, before the sympathetic villagers, between the Summer fête and the crosses and poppies of Remembrance Sunday.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

GMW Wemyss is the beloved West Country essayist; co-editor and co-annotator of critical volumes of Kipling and Kenneth Grahame; and an historian who has chronicled the loss of RMS Titanic, the fall of Chamberlain’s government, and that portentous year, 1937. This, the first in a series, is his first novel under this name.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1493746707
• ISBN 13: 9781493746705
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 420
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg