A Delicious Recipe for Domestic Disaster:
Take one small town where everyone thinks they know everyone else’s business. Add three households:
MP Mike Andrews, his wife Gill and two young children;
Church of Scotland minister Tom Graham, his wife Ali, two teenage daughters and an afterthought;
Sixty-something local businessman Jack Caldwell, and his childless wife Phyllis.
Mix in several large dollops of scandal, some secrets and a tragedy.
Turn up the heat and bring to the boil.
Season with one eccentric old lady – Minty Oliver – and serve with the tabloid press and a big helping of local gossip.
Take one small town where everyone thinks they know everyone else’s business. Add three households:
MP Mike Andrews, his wife Gill and two young children;
Church of Scotland minister Tom Graham, his wife Ali, two teenage daughters and an afterthought;
Sixty-something local businessman Jack Caldwell, and his childless wife Phyllis.
Mix in several large dollops of scandal, some secrets and a tragedy.
Turn up the heat and bring to the boil.
Season with one eccentric old lady – Minty Oliver – and serve with the tabloid press and a big helping of local gossip.
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'Wallace gleefully exposes the gossipy thought bubbles of the self-righteous and genteel...consistently wry and often joyously funny'
'Neatly observed...enjoyably witty'
'Hugely entertaining'
'A rollicking read...with a good eye for what lies beneath the surface'
'Hilarious...a tale of quaint country folk peppered with smatterings of bigotry, raunchiness and intrigue'