The Great Village Show. Alexandra Brown

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       Copyright

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      First published in Great Britain by Harper 2015

      Copyright © Alexandra Brown 2015

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      Alexandra Brown asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

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      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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      Source ISBN: 9780007597390

      Ebook Edition © July 2015 ISBN: 9780007597406

      Version: 2016-04-25

       Dedication

      For Mavis Holdsworth Mercer

      26 November 1928 – 15 January 2015

      My Doncaster nanny, a lady who was always very

      kind to me xxx

      ‘Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year – it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.’

      –Anonymous

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

       Epigraph

       Map

      Prologue

      Chapter One

      Chapter Two

      Chapter Three

      Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Chapter Thirteen

       Chapter Fourteen

       Chapter Fifteen

       Chapter Sixteen

       Chapter Seventeen

       Chapter Eighteen

       Chapter Nineteen

       Chapter Twenty

       Chapter Twenty-One

       Chapter Twenty-Two

       Epilogue

       The Great Village Recipes

       Keep Reading

       Acknowledgements

       About the Author

       Also by Alexandra Brown

       About the Publisher

       Prologue

      Jessie Cavendish hadn’t been sure about uprooting from their elegant Chelsea mews house and re-locating to the quaint, but quite muddy, little village of Tindledale. Having grown up in a rural, close-knit, welly-wearing community, she knew first hand how incestuous they could be and how isolated they could make one feel. Yet, as she hiked on up to the highest point overlooking the valley, landmarked by the biggest oak tree she had ever seen, pausing to catch her breath as she slipped off her cardy and tied it neatly around her waist, she realised that the more she saw of this idyllic part of the world, the more she rather liked it.

      Tindledale was surrounded by lush, undulating green hills dotted with lambs and an abundance of pretty wild flowers, pink apple orchards and strawberry fields. At its heart lay an adorably cobbled High Street, flanked either side with black timber-framed, white-wattle-walled СКАЧАТЬ