num_pages: 392
description: 'Rebecca Shaw mixes all the ingredients for a winning novel of village life' - THE TIMES 'Highly recommended escapism for townies' - MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS Jimbo Charter-Plackett, who runs the village store, has asked his mother Katherine to come and live near him, but his wife has reservations - she knows what a difficult and domineering woman her mother-in-law can be. Katherine rents a cottage on the green, and steps in when the organiser of the harvest festival display breaks her leg. The uproar caused by her highland ways lasts for weeks. Only Peter,the rector, can control Katherine's more outrageous actions. Finding it hard to resist his natural charm, she begins to mellow as the village works its magic on her.
language: English
title: Scandal In The Village.
titlecomplete: Scandal In The Village.
genres: Contemporary, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 365
series: Tales from Turnham Malpas
publisher: Ulverscroft