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Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall - The Second Novel In The Batch Magna Series By Award-Winning Author Peter Maughan.
"So often sequels leave one in morose disappointment, but in this sequel Cuckoos flies on in mad, idiosyncratic splendour ... I seriously have to agree with what other Amazon reviewers have said about Peter Maughan's work. These books deserve to, and I'm sure will, become classics of English literature." FelicityM, United Kingdom.
"Who would have thought another book could have come out of the first that was so perfect?" Clarissa Simmens, FL, USA.
"As you journey with the folks of this fabulous town, you will grow to love them as if you have known them for generations. Peter Maughan has proven himself a master storyteller. `The Cuckoos of Batch Magna' was proof of that & he continues to grace the pages of his books with eloquence & magic. These are sure to become favorites of literary fans of any genre." Liz Terek, (United States).
"This book was just as funny as the first one and boy what I would give to live in the madhouse that is Batch Magna. Peter Maughan writes fluently and so well that you can lose yourself in the river or in the woods listening to the rustle of little creatures rushing hither and thither ..." Pyewacket (UK), Vine Voice, Top 500 Reviewer.
"... his imagery is exquisite." Ray Nicholson, CA. Top 1000 reviewer.
"Peter Maughan gives readers a special treat with SIR HUMPHREY OF BATCH HALL - plus The Famous Cricket Match. Where do you love to read? Wherever it is take this book with you and indulge in pure pleasure ..." Nash Black (Jamestown, USA), Vine Voice.
"... an author who is highly underrated & one that is amongst the best I have ever read." Leonie Coleman, Australia.
"Peter Maughan is a master story teller ..."
Mark Van Aken Williams, (USA).
The story so far …
In 'The Cuckoos of Batch Magna', the old squire of Batch Magna died, and the life of distant relative Humphrey, an amiable, overweight short-order cook from the Bronx, turned into a movie. One in which he even got the girl - the right girl, in the end.
The road to that end was rocky and fraught, and half the time wasn't going at all in the direction he wanted to go – or thought he wanted to go. Until the end ...
And now, in Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall, they marry. They settle into Batch Hall and look to their the future – a future which threatens to be short lived.
Their finances at this early stage rests, shakily, on the estate’s shooting and fishing, stepping stones to that more secure future. And they come to have cause to hope that they will get there. Until the day a cold wind from the world beyond the hills of their valley visits Batch Magna in the shape of badger baiters discovered in Cutterbach Wood. They are routed, but their defeat entails such disaster that Humphrey and his new wife are driven to the wall, left with no way out but to sell the estate, to sell their future in that place.
And then Miss Wyndham, village spinster and amateur sleuth, rides to the rescue on the 49 bus …
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Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall - The Second Novel In The Batch Magna Series By Award-Winning Author Peter Maughan.
"So often sequels leave one in morose disappointment, but in this sequel Cuckoos flies on in mad, idiosyncratic splendour ... I seriously have to agree with what other Amazon reviewers have said about Peter Maughan's work. These books deserve to, and I'm sure will, become classics of English literature." FelicityM, United Kingdom.
"Who would have thought another book could have come out of the first that was so perfect?" Clarissa Simmens, FL, USA.
"As you journey with the folks of this fabulous town, you will grow to love them as if you have known them for generations. Peter Maughan has proven himself a master storyteller. `The Cuckoos of Batch Magna' was proof of that & he continues to grace the pages of his books with eloquence & magic. These are sure to become favorites of literary fans of any genre." Liz Terek, (United States).
"This book was just as funny as the first one and boy what I would give to live in the madhouse that is Batch Magna. Peter Maughan writes fluently and so well that you can lose yourself in the river or in the woods listening to the rustle of little creatures rushing hither and thither ..." Pyewacket (UK), Vine Voice, Top 500 Reviewer.
"... his imagery is exquisite." Ray Nicholson, CA. Top 1000 reviewer.
"Peter Maughan gives readers a special treat with SIR HUMPHREY OF BATCH HALL - plus The Famous Cricket Match. Where do you love to read? Wherever it is take this book with you and indulge in pure pleasure ..." Nash Black (Jamestown, USA), Vine Voice.
"... an author who is highly underrated & one that is amongst the best I have ever read." Leonie Coleman, Australia.
"Peter Maughan is a master story teller ..."
Mark Van Aken Williams, (USA).
The story so far …
In 'The Cuckoos of Batch Magna', the old squire of Batch Magna died, and the life of distant relative Humphrey, an amiable, overweight short-order cook from the Bronx, turned into a movie. One in which he even got the girl - the right girl, in the end.
The road to that end was rocky and fraught, and half the time wasn't going at all in the direction he wanted to go – or thought he wanted to go. Until the end ...
And now, in Sir Humphrey of Batch Hall, they marry. They settle into Batch Hall and look to their the future – a future which threatens to be short lived.
Their finances at this early stage rests, shakily, on the estate’s shooting and fishing, stepping stones to that more secure future. And they come to have cause to hope that they will get there. Until the day a cold wind from the world beyond the hills of their valley visits Batch Magna in the shape of badger baiters discovered in Cutterbach Wood. They are routed, but their defeat entails such disaster that Humphrey and his new wife are driven to the wall, left with no way out but to sell the estate, to sell their future in that place.
And then Miss Wyndham, village spinster and amateur sleuth, rides to the rescue on the 49 bus …
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