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THE CHESTERFIELD HOURS, Book One
THE CHESTERFIELD HOURS, Book One
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Kirkus Reviews "Best of 2012" list!
A whisky-and-splash comic chaser for the godawful 2000s. Anglican Seinfeld. Wodehouse with more sex, Waugh with more heart. Who's for a bit of what we're having, a perfect fizzer of a Brit-American cocktail, with a happy ending for all time?
Each Book of Chesterfield is a novella-length story with its own lunatic plot-line. Together the three Books form a unified novel. "Sparkling... Literate, funny, and romantic... " Kirkus Reviews (starred review)*
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Book One: CHESTERFIELD GETS THE GATE -- When his alluring wife Deborah bolts with Benedict Hoepplewhite, young schoolteacher Chesterfield must accept the iron dictates of his family code: no gentleman subjects a woman to the indignity of divorce. A gentleman needn't, however, take it entirely lying down. Whether allying with a lesser evil (the Mafia) to take down Hoepplewhite, "chucking a dummy" in a French bistro to foil Deborah's grab for the rumoured family fortune, or unleashing his valiant dog Daisy on gun-wielding hooligans, Chesterfield is keen for action. But who'd have thought that winsome green-eyed kindergarten teacher Carrie Hahn would so perfectly match with him in zest for mischief?
A whisky-and-splash comic chaser for the godawful 2000s. Anglican Seinfeld. Wodehouse with more sex, Waugh with more heart. Who's for a bit of what we're having, a perfect fizzer of a Brit-American cocktail, with a happy ending for all time?
Each Book of Chesterfield is a novella-length story with its own lunatic plot-line. Together the three Books form a unified novel. "Sparkling... Literate, funny, and romantic... " Kirkus Reviews (starred review)*
*www.kirkusreviews.com
Book One: CHESTERFIELD GETS THE GATE -- When his alluring wife Deborah bolts with Benedict Hoepplewhite, young schoolteacher Chesterfield must accept the iron dictates of his family code: no gentleman subjects a woman to the indignity of divorce. A gentleman needn't, however, take it entirely lying down. Whether allying with a lesser evil (the Mafia) to take down Hoepplewhite, "chucking a dummy" in a French bistro to foil Deborah's grab for the rumoured family fortune, or unleashing his valiant dog Daisy on gun-wielding hooligans, Chesterfield is keen for action. But who'd have thought that winsome green-eyed kindergarten teacher Carrie Hahn would so perfectly match with him in zest for mischief?
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