Other people's letters are always a guilty pleasure. But for PC Roger Topping - contemplating a cache of 27 undelivered missives, dumped in an alley in Skipton - they're also a job of work.
From complaints about dog shit to passive-aggressive fanmail, via Biblical amateur dramatics and a disastrous Auction of Promises, Topping's investigation leads him into the curtain-twitching lives of Jeremy Baverstock, the Jonty Weiss-Quinns, Mrs Tirza Parry (widow), and a host of other eccentrics who inhabit the moorside village of Burley Cross.
Irresistibly readable and brilliantly unconventional, Burley Cross Postbox Theft is a Cranford for today, albeit with a decent dose of Tamiflu, some dodgy sex-therapy and a whiff of cheap-smelling vodka.
From complaints about dog shit to passive-aggressive fanmail, via Biblical amateur dramatics and a disastrous Auction of Promises, Topping's investigation leads him into the curtain-twitching lives of Jeremy Baverstock, the Jonty Weiss-Quinns, Mrs Tirza Parry (widow), and a host of other eccentrics who inhabit the moorside village of Burley Cross.
Irresistibly readable and brilliantly unconventional, Burley Cross Postbox Theft is a Cranford for today, albeit with a decent dose of Tamiflu, some dodgy sex-therapy and a whiff of cheap-smelling vodka.
Book ISBN: 9780007356287
Book Pages: 361
Book Publishing Year: 2011
Book Publisher: Fourth estate (gb)
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