![]() ![]() Especially for fanciers of British imports but there's happy talk for a transatlantic audience too. ![]() This is a tie-in to a 4-part BBC-TV series starring Maria Aitken and Leslie. A fete, the trains, cricket, and the comedy of a proper, stuffy - and unhappy-conformist experiencing uninhibited and off- bounds enjoyments, is a larky and moonbeam relaxation. A comedy on a railway branch-line in East Anglia, first published in 1959. Arcady- and its greenswards, its moats and castles, its family feuds and alliances, and the uncluttered, open, freedom of sex, drink, talk and action - is just that for Jasper who learns to take embarrassing moments with a leap and whose decision - when the project is closed down - is to depart from this small stay in paradise with a less flamboyant female than those he has sampled. ![]() There the private railway, the crippled peer and his gardening wife, and his out-down-and-forth-right daughters quite devastate Jasper while the life of the Ministry's staff entrances him. A fanciful bit centers around Jasper Pye, deep in Civil Servitude, ready to bolt when a chance for a new assignment -investigating ""Output Statistics"" which has been forgotten since 1940, takes him to the Earl of Flamborough's estate. ![]()
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