Bramton Wick

Bramton Wick was a small, compact community riddled with polite social politics. The town could be divided many different ways; in fact it usually was. Lady Masters might have been an Issue on which the town divided except that hardly anyone but Lady Masters would have taken Lady Masters' part-not even her son Toby.

Elizabeth Fair's kind but alertly observant eye misses nothing and she does full justice to any number of erratic and charming characters in the course of her story. There is Miss "Pussy" Cleeve, the indefatigable conversationalist who never permits truth to cramp her style--what she doesn't know she invents. There is Miss Selbourne and her friend "Tiger" Garrett, who share a house and a passion for dogs but managed the sale of one to Mr. Greenley, who though no more highly of them than she did. There is Gillian's sister Laura. who was perhaps, going to marry Toby Masters. And there is hard-pressed Miles Corton, landlord and farmer; and Major Worthy, who cultivates his ill temper and the legend of his delicate health. Here is a warm and cheerful comedy that is genuinely gay and at the same time manages to explore a wide range of human foibles and idiosyncrasies with a shrewd and artful pen.