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Loading... Intrigue In The Village (Turnham Malpas 10) (edition 2008)by Rebecca Shaw
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is the 10th in the Turnham Malpas series. Lovely gentle reads about the village and villagers. Back Cover Blurb: Everyone in the village of Turnham Malpas is invited up to the Big House for a celebration of Craddock Fitch's increasingly successful business - but it soon becomes apparent that there is more to it than that. When they are all assembled, they find out that the party is, in fact, a lavish wedding reception for two very surprising people. When the festivities are over, Turnham Malpas is thrown into preparations of a different nature. It is the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the village school and the head teacher, Kate, is arranging a big celebration. She enthusiastically starts making plans, but there is one problem of which she is unaware. In asking the previous head teachers to attend she has unwittingly placed the rector and his wife Caroline in an impossible situation.... In this installment of the Turham Malpas series, the villagers are invited to attend a lavish party celebrating the business success of a prominent towns person. Once they get there, however, it revealed that they are actually at the wedding reception of two villagers they would never expect. Meanwhile, the village is planning another celebration - the school's 150th anniversary. The problem? All the old head teachers and their families are being invited, and a former headmaster is now married to the birth mother of the rector's adopted twins (did you catch all that?). Quote: "No one moved: they were too stunned. A strained silence fell, which no one dared break." This novel continues the trend of the later Turham Malpas books towards focusing on all of the ramifications of our poor decisions coming back to cause us unforeseen problems years later. A potentially blech new couple ends up working really well together, even though none of the character flaws are erased. A very good installment of this series. no reviews | add a review
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'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 asking the previous head teachers to attend she has unwittingly placed the rector and his wife Caroline in an impossible situation... No library descriptions found. |
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There's also a rather odd thread involving seance as well as plenty of general soap-style episodes: people being fired from jobs, a new family arriving; suspicions of infidelity, accidents, and so on.
Each book is complete in itself, so it's not necessary to have read others in the series; on the other hand, there's such a big cast that it's almost impossible to keep track of who's who, even with the help of a list at the front of the book.
The writing style is casual, the characters not very well developed.... and yet there's something about these books that continues to make them compulsive reading.
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