Cross and Poppy - A Village Tale (Paperback)

"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 fete and the crosses and poppies of Remembrance Sunday.

General

Imprint:	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Village Tales, 1
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	November 2013
Authors:	G. Mw Wemyss
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	420
ISBN-13:	978-1-4937-4670-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Promotions
LSN:	1-4937-4670-7
Barcode:	9781493746705

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