Place in the Country
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- ISBN 9781911546337
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2018
- Publisher: The Conrad Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
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.
