2023/095: A Man of Some Repute — Elizabeth Edmondson

2023/095: A Man of Some Repute — Elizabeth Edmondson

...this was quintessential England. Inward-looking, still licking the wounds of war, keeping the flag flying and hoping that Life Was Getting Better. [p. 105]

Rural England in 1953: Hugo Hawksworth, former intelligence officer, is confined to desk work following an injury. With his 13-year-old sister Georgia, he moves to the little town of Selchester to work on 'statistics' (which are clearly nothing of the kind) and is accommodated at the Castle, once the home of the Earl of Selchester but now inhabited, since the Earl's mysterious disappearance in a blizzard nearly seven years ago, by his niece Freya and a number of staff.

New evidence suggests that the Earl's disappearance is not as mysterious as all that( Read more... )