Helen Simonson

Written with humour and compassion, it is a delight. Pip Williams, bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words I loved this book! The glorious characters and evocative setting, as well as the portrayal of the era, are all beautifully balanced with a plot that had me so invested I didn't want it to end. Amanda Hampson, bestselling author of...

Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the small rural English village of Edgecombe St Mary, where he values the proper things that Englishmen have treasured for generations—honour, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. The Major takes pleasure in his well-organised and rational life until he finds out that his patronising son and the kind...