The Cuckoos of Batch Magna - LOL Comedy - Free Today on Kindle

stevedan

I also came across The Cuckoos of Batch Magna by Peter Maughan. It is a rural comedy - Darling Buds of May territory. The first chapter made me smile, tho I haven't read the rest yet. But at free, who is complaining. Worth a try.

When Sir Humphrey Miles Pinkerton Strange, 8th baronet and squire of the remote village of Batch Magna in the Welsh Marches, departs this world what’s left of his decaying estate passes to distant relative.

A very distant relative.

And a very different sort of man.

Hump - an amiable, overweight short-order cook from the Bronx.

He is reluctantly persuaded to become Sir Humphrey Franklin T Strange, 9th baronet and squire of Batch Magna.

But his Uncle Frank, a small time Wall Street broker with an eye on the big time, has plans to to make a killing by turning the sleepy village into a theme-park of rural England – a vacation paradise for free-spending American millionaires.

The trouble is, not everyone is happy with the plan.

And a riotous rural comedy is about to be played out.

Because Batch Magna is a place where anything might happen. And frequently does…

'The Cuckoos of Batch Magna' is a brilliantly comic take on village life that is perfect for fans of Alan Titchmarsh, MC Beaton and HE Bates.

Praise for 'The Cuckoos of Batch Magna':

“… written in a wonderfully descriptive style that enfolds your imagination as the rural conflict unravels in the Welsh Marches on the English-Welsh border. Personally, I eager await his next novel” The County Times.

“This fine, Marches-based novel, written in a punchy and descriptive style, is the sort of book which could be swallowed up in a day or two under the shade of an English oak.” David Pilkington, Country & Border Life.

“This amusing book is an intriguing mixture of character examination, social commentary and dark humour laced with an insight into the parochial infighting to which many Shropshire villages will be able to relate … Read this book, and you are bound to recognise someone you know.” Carl Jones, The Shropshire Star.

“An hilarious novel peopled with a cast of Welsh and English eccentric" - The Monmouthshire Merlin.

“A marvellously descriptive writer …” - Laurie Lee, author of Cider with Rosie.

“This is one of the most enjoyable books I have read lately. I loved it and hated to put it down.” Celia A. Leaman, author of Mary’s Child and Unravelled.