
A Place in the Country
Rob Stuart(Author)
The Conrad Press
Published on 1. May 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-1-911546-33-7 (ISBN)
Description
When yuppies Mitchell and Jocasta Dever move into Yew Tree cottage in the Hampshire village of Itchen Prior they fondly imagine they'll be starting a new life of bucolic bliss in a rural idyll. In fact, things don't exactly turn out like that. What they find is a seething pit of incest, sexual jealousy, paganism, exploitation, sharp business practices, feudalism and murder.
'A Place in the Country' - whose galaxy of characters includes Sherborne St John, the lord of the manor and his scheming wife, Gwendolyn, who keeps her stable hand, Crux Easton, as a sex slave; Jed Smith, exploitative garden centre owner who uses the Bosnian student Jagoda Doboj and her friends as cheap illegal labour, and the deeply dubious Warren family - is a novel that takes a hilarious, jaunty, and also often moving and disturbing look at a rural idyll that is anything but.
'A Place in the Country' - whose galaxy of characters includes Sherborne St John, the lord of the manor and his scheming wife, Gwendolyn, who keeps her stable hand, Crux Easton, as a sex slave; Jed Smith, exploitative garden centre owner who uses the Bosnian student Jagoda Doboj and her friends as cheap illegal labour, and the deeply dubious Warren family - is a novel that takes a hilarious, jaunty, and also often moving and disturbing look at a rural idyll that is anything but.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Canterbury
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-911546-33-7 (9781911546337)
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Person
Rob Stuart was born in Germany where his father was a UK Ministry of Defence officer on the East German frontier.
Rob has been a bookseller, civil servant, wine bar owner and EFL teacher. He is now retired.
Rob has been a bookseller, civil servant, wine bar owner and EFL teacher. He is now retired.