The Glad Summer
A Historical book. What a delightful summer idyll! It's short, sweet and lighthearted....
When Nicholas Harbourne unexcpectedly inherited the Harbourne baronetcy and fortune he decided to stay incognito among his tenants to discover how they lived-and so met the lovely Joanne, who was valiantly running her farm under difficulties not of her own making.As the story progresses we meet Aunt Jemima and little Priscilla, who take Nicholas to their hearts for the man he is; the dessolute Lord Wolverton, who hates him for the same reason and is trying to blackmail Joanne into marriage; Bill the carter; George the ploughman; Joe the cowman and the other characters who live in the Sussex that Jeffery Farnol loves.How Nicholas makes his friends' lives happier and fuller-and his own at the same time, how he works as a handyman on Joanne's farm, how he outwits and outfights Wolverton, how he learns to say the...
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When Nicholas Harbourne travels to Sussex to his newly inherited estate, he discovers the locals are filled with animosity towards their new landlord and Joanne Marsden, mistress of the farm Fallowdene is grieving to have to sell her beloved home. Nicholas, in disguise as the lowly handyman Anthony Anson, sets about to woo the lovliest... What a delightful summer idyll! It's short, sweet and lighthearted. I think the dust jacket flap describe the plot best, so I'll leave it at that and just say what I liked. I just have to say one thing about that DJ though, did that writer know how to write long sentences or what? The commas made my eyes cross. First off, we have Joanne...
