Publisher's Synopsis
"Rebecca Shaw mixes all the ingredients for a winning novel of village life." THE TIMES The invitation by Craddock Fitch to the Big House is billed as a celebration of his business, but as everyone in the village is invited it is obviously something more exciting than that. In fact, they find it is a wedding reception for two very surprising people. With these festivities over, the inhabitants of Turnham Malpas are thrown into preparations of a different nature. It is the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the village school and Kate, the head teacher, is arranging a big celebration. But she has unwittingly placed the rector and his wife, Caroline, in an impossible situation. And Maggie Dobbs, the school caretaker, causes havoc when she dabbles in the occult...
