Author: NORTH, SAM
Title: The Old Country
Description: London, Simon and Schuster. 2007, First Edition. (ISBN: 0743275462). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine unmarked copy with a Near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped and which has a small residue of a label to front. Irresistibly charming, and written with great humour, verve and belief in the power of the human spirit, the novel charts one man's eccentric odyssey through the three classic rituals that mark the progress of family life: a funeral, a christening and a wedding. Sir Michael Gough, patriarch of the beleaguered Gough family, is reduced to borrowing a leaky barn for his living quarters, a far cry from his family pile, Sitten Hall, which he was forced to 'gift' to the National Trust twenty three years earlier. And worse is to come when his elderly mother, Granny Banana, falls out of the back of the Land Rover - a funeral is the last thing the Gough family can afford, and her wish was to be buried at Sitten Hall alongside her cherished terrier, Sprocket. C3A. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Fiction, English Impoverished Upper Class 0743275462


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