The French Gardener

Authors: Santa Montefiore

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“Colonel Pike sat in the corner by the window reading The Times, a cup of coffee steaming on the table beside a hot buttered crumpet. Every now and then his mustache would twitch at something he found offensive and he’d mutter under his breath. The Reverend Freda Beeley was enjoying tea with a couple of her choir members, Jack Tinton and Malcolm Shawditch, discussing their plans for Christmas and the carol concert to raise money to repair the church spire. Two elderly ladies sat gossiping about ...their friend Joan Halesham who had left her husband of sixty-two years for her old school sweetheart. “Sixty-two years!” exclaimed Dorothy Dipwood. “What’s the point of exchanging one old codger for another? After eighty they’re all the same, aren’t they? Especially when one’s as blind as Joan.” William van den Bos, an avid collector of Napoleona who owned the bookshop, was at the table nearest the cakes, tucking into a large slice of lemon drizzle and talking to a man who had telephoned claiming to own Napoleon’s chamber pot.MoreLess Read More Read Less