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Synopsis
First published in 1995, this is the first of a series. When the new rector, Peter Harris, arrives he finds the villagers welcoming but set in their ways. When the village is rocked by a spiteful trick and a gruesome murder, Peter's pastoral care is crucial, yet he is wrestling with his own private hell that may still wreck his own life.
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About the Author
Rebecca Shaw was a former school teacher and the bestselling author of many novels. She lived with her husband in a beautiful Dorset village where she found plenty of inspiration for her stories about rural life. Rebecca sadly passed away in 2015.
From Publishers Weekly
The small, gossipy English village of Turnham Malpas is the real protagonist of this entertaining first novel about life among the mannered, self-conscious British from Easter to Christmas of one year. New to town is handsome married pastor Peter Harris, who soon will react to a rather selfish suicide, figure out who pulled some nasty pranks on the town spinster and solve the murder of a local schoolteacher. The narrative is filled with drama, though the most dramatic writing has less to do with homicide than with the neurosis surrounding so-called "proper" behavior. Isn't Suzy Meadows's dress, wonder the townspeople, a bit tight and flashy for a mourning widow? And who will occupy the murdered woman's house now that it's vacant? With understanding and sympathy, English writer Shaw captures the tradition-bound, rural sensibility of people who ordinarily mean well but who have trouble communicating with each other. Sending up the British stereotypes (the repressed spinster, the noble gardener) that Americans often relish, she seems to be writing with Yankee Anglophiles in mind.
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- PublisherOrion Publishing Co
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 185799731X
- ISBN 13 9781857997316
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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