num_pages: 208
description: James Ballantyne runs his seafront hotel with about as much enthusiasm as Basil Fawlty. For Ballantyne has missed his vocation: he should have been a social worker.So with stiff upper lip (and an even stiffer whisky inside him) he sets out to establish a self-help children's home in one of the town's more palatial residences.His long-suffering wife Irma, who would much rather be in the garden tending her magnificent roses, stands by her husband through every subterfuge and stratagem. He takes on all challengers; a lascivious widow; corrupt local councillors; Mr Buzbee, the tax inspector.
language: English
title: Ballantyne's folly: A novel
titlecomplete: Ballantyne's folly: A novel
ratings_count: 5
publisher: The Hogarth Press