Summary
A pampered ink-slinger, heir to a miserly squire’s crumbling fiefdom, is exiled from London’s gaslit salons to the mossy backwaters of his father’s estate; there, among peat smoke, cider hymns, and the sour stink of feudal debt, he sheds his dandy skin, trades quips for ploughshares, and bankrolls a clandestine co-operative that turns tithe maps into kindling, transforming the parish’s despair into a jubilant, makeshift carnival of wheat, ale, and forbidden accordions until the squire’s wrath descends like a winter hawk and the prodigal must decide whether to sign away his birthright or torch the ledgers and become the myth the villagers whisper about when the wind claws the thatch.
Synopsis
A mean squire's novelist son becomes a village benefactor.
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