A new housing estate has been built on the grounds of an old manor house, which burned down at the end of the last century. Samuel Stokes, the gardener of the old manor house, doesn't like the new residents, and his ghost decides to get rid of them!
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"Very funny story about what happens when a housing development clashes with a long-dead landscape gardener who's not prepared to have his plans changed. " — Cindy (4 out of 5 stars)
"Very funny story about what happens when a housing development clashes with a long-dead landscape gardener who's not prepared to have his plans changed. "
" Very funny story about what happens when a housing development clashes with a long-dead landscape gardener who's not prepared to have his plans changed. "
Penelope Lively is an award-winning novelist and author of children’s literature. She received the Booker Prize for her novel Moon Tiger and the Carnegie Medal for British Children’s Books for The Ghost of Thomas Kempe. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of PEN and the Society of Authors. In recognition of her contributions to British literature, she has been appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Carole Boyd’s theater work includes a year performing with Alan Ayckbourn’s Scarborough Company where she created the role of June in Way Upstream, while her television credits include Hetty Wainthropp Investigates and Mystery!: Campion. Boyd also plays the notorious Lynda Snell in The Archers, is a regular reader on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please, and has won three audiobook awards for her recordings.
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