La Lucia - (Mapp and Lucia) by Hugh Ashton (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The characters from the famous Mapp and Lucia series come alive in this prequel to the first book. Lucia, Pepino, and Georgie hunt fossils, Roman remains - and meet Miss Elizabeth Mapp.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Mrs Emmeline Lucas, known to all as "la Lucia", is the undisputed social and cultural leader of the quiet, but refined country village of Riseholme. Together with her husband, and her devoted courtier Georgie Pillson, she leads her subjects in hunts for Roman remains and fossils. Meanwhile two very different visitors arrive in the village, and the balance of Riseholme power is temporarily upset.</p><p><em>La Lucia</em> looks at life in Riseholme before the start of the Mapp and Lucia novels by E.F.Benson, and is written in sincere tribute to these comic but yet sympathetic portraits of middle-class society in England in the 1920s and 1930s. It is the third book in Hugh Ashton's Mapp and Lucia series, following <em>Mapp at Fifty</em> and <em>Mapp's Return</em>, which have been enjoyed by fans of the original stories: </p><p><br></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Hugh Ashton's books beautifully capture E.F.Benson's voice and characters. My only complaint is they end too soon and leave me hungry for more!"</p><p>"...skilfully captures E.F.Benson's style, tone and feel. From the start, I forgot this was not a Benson original and allowed the wonderful inhabitants of Tilling to envelop me once again."</p><p>"Delicious echoes of Fred [Benson]'s voice come through loud and clear in this short story.";</p><br>
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