Affairs at Hampden Ferrers
Affairs at Hampden Ferrers
Author : Brian W. Aldiss
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Hampden Ferrers is an obscure country village not too distant from Oxford. Its village church St Clements is 1500 years old and some of the villagers decide that this record...
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Hampden Ferrers is an obscure country village not too distant from Oxford. Its village church St Clements is 1500 years old and some of the villagers decide that this record of continuity and stability should be celebrated. There are many difficulties in the way. Foreigners arrive - in particular two Chinese students and an Italian TV celebrity - and love affairs break out some suitable some less suitable.
The atmosphere of romance engenders miracles. Slowly the village becomes involved in magic. Ordinary lives are transformed. Then a threat emanates from within the church itself. The atmosphere darkens as the celebration committee has to decide who is really in command of the world.
Brian Aldiss' novel brims with comic and sinister invention. The celebration is not only for St Clements but for Englishness for the love of the foreign and for love itself.
The atmosphere of romance engenders miracles. Slowly the village becomes involved in magic. Ordinary lives are transformed. Then a threat emanates from within the church itself. The atmosphere darkens as the celebration committee has to decide who is really in command of the world.
Brian Aldiss' novel brims with comic and sinister invention. The celebration is not only for St Clements but for Englishness for the love of the foreign and for love itself.