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Marching with April Paperback Book

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At a Glance
1950s Scottish Highland Setting
Magnificent Farcical Comedy
Eccentric Colorful Characters
Hugo Charteris's Distinctive Style
Complex Intriguing Plot
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It is the early 1950s. Lionel Spote, a young London publisher, has just discovered that he has inherited a Scottish estate. He is also a rather bemused devotee of the couch the psychiatric one. Full to the brim with misgivings and uncertainty, he arrives in the far north to discover that his newlyacquired property marches alongside that of a formidable woman, April GunterSykes, who is staringeyed and direct bluntly peculiar. It must be said that Aprils elusive daughter Laura seems far more appealing. He also meets Sir Duncan Fidge, the local MP, an ebullient storm of a man, who insists immediately on regaling him with his Great Plan to boost local productivity and employment. In the meantime, the estate has to be run, locals met, visits from Lionels mother and his authors fielded and tolerated, an eccentric Pipe Major of the areas Cadets negotiated, not to mention the estates bizarre housekeeper. An internecine war among the locals into which Lionel is swept up, centred around Sir Duncans Big Idea, proves a stubborn and intractable problem. Lionel can only try to concentrate on Laura, and keep playing for all hes worth.Hugo Charteris second novel is a magnificent farce of vying intentions set in a far northern Scottish county, with a motley of disparate characters fiercely protecting their own interests in a choppy sea of suspicion and bewilderment. The authors spare, intriguing and deadpan style embellishes this complex scenario with extraordinary flashes of insight and...

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Binding: Paperback;264 pages; Publisher: Michael Walmer; Classification: FA; Weight: 432 g; Dimensions: 133 x 203 x 23

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