Intrigue in the Village
Rebecca Shaw(Author)
Pam Ferris(Speaker)
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Published on 4. December 2003
Audio
Audio cassette
978-0-7528-6073-2 (ISBN)
Description
'He is a changed man, Greta. A changed man. Those frosty blue eyes of his are not nearly so chilling as they were.' There is a mystery surrounding the invitation by Craddock Fitch to the Big House. It is billed as a celebration of his business, but as everyone in the village has been invited, it is obviously more exciting than that. When everyone is assembled, they find that it is a lavish wedding reception for two very surprising people. With these festivities over, the inhabitants of Turnham Malpas are thrown into preparations of a different nature. It is the 150th anniversary of the village school and Kate - the head teacher - is arranging a big event. There is the problem of accommodating everyone's enthusiasm as they plan a cricket match, buffet teas, maypole dancing, plays and singing on the green. But there is one problem of which she is unaware. In inviting the previous head teachers, she has asked her predecessor, little realizing that he is married to Suzy, mother of the rector's twins. When it comes to meeting their mother for the first time, the twins don't know how they will feel, and nor for that matter do their parents...
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Dimensions
Height: 140 mm
Width: 106 mm
Thickness: 35 mm
Duration
Dauer: 360 min
Weight
237 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7528-6073-2 (9780752860732)
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Rebecca Shaw qualified as a teacher of deaf children before raising a family. With the departure of the last of her four children she turned to writing. Pam Ferris was recently on ITV with Felicity Kendall in Rosemary and Thyme and is in the latest Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban in 2004. She was also (famously and brilliantly) Ma Larkin in Darling Buds of May with Catherine Zeta-Jones and has has featured on television in The Bill, Casualty, Middlemarch, Where the Heart Is, Nicholas Nickleby, Linda Green, Darling Buds of May, Clocking Off and now Rosemary & Thyme and appeared in numerous other TV productions. On film, she co-starred with Danny De Vito in Roald Dahl's Matilda.