Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall
The Second Novel In The Batch Magna Series By Award-Winning Author Peter Maughan.
The story so far …
In 'The Cuckoos of Batch Magna', the old squire of Batch Magna died, and the life of distant relative Humphrey, an amiable, overweight short-order cook from the Bronx, turned into a movie. One in which he even got the girl - the right girl, in the end.
The road to that end was rocky and fraught, and half the time wasn't going at all in the direction he wanted to go – or thought he wanted to go. Until the end ...
And now, in Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall, they marry. They settle into Batch Hall and look to their the future – a future which threatens to be short lived.
Their finances at this early stage rests, shakily, on the estate’s shooting and fishing, stepping stones to that more secure future. And they come to have cause to hope that they will get there. Until the day a cold wind from the world beyond the hills of their valley visits Batch Magna in the shape of badger baiters discovered in Cutterbach Wood. They are routed, but their defeat entails such disaster that Humphrey and his new wife are driven to the wall, left with no way out but to sell the estate, to sell their future in that place.
And then Miss Wyndham, village spinster and amateur sleuth, rides to the rescue on the 49 bus …
The Second Novel In The Batch Magna Series By Award-Winning Author Peter Maughan.
The story so far …
In 'The Cuckoos of Batch Magna', the old squire of Batch Magna died, and the life of distant relative Humphrey, an amiable, overweight short-order cook from the Bronx, turned into a movie. One in which he even got the girl - the right girl, in the end.
The road to that end was rocky and fraught, and half the time wasn't going at all in the direction he wanted to go – or thought he wanted to go. Until the end ...
And now, in Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall, they marry. They settle into Batch Hall and look to their the future – a future which threatens to be short lived.
Their finances at this early stage rests, shakily, on the estate’s shooting and fishing, stepping stones to that more secure future. And they come to have cause to hope that they will get there. Until the day a cold wind from the world beyond the hills of their valley visits Batch Magna in the shape of badger baiters discovered in Cutterbach Wood. They are routed, but their defeat entails such disaster that Humphrey and his new wife are driven to the wall, left with no way out but to sell the estate, to sell their future in that place.
And then Miss Wyndham, village spinster and amateur sleuth, rides to the rescue on the 49 bus …
