Spinster of the Parish

by Ann Purser (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $4.08

  It is a year since Ivy Beasley,an ageing spinster with a waspish tongue and an all seeing eye,watched with deep suspicion as her new neighbours,the Palmer,movedinto Round Ringford Post Office.Peggy Palmer's warm friendship with unhappily married Bill Turner continues to infuriate Ivy,until her attention is disastrously caught by the arrival of the new vicar,Nigel Brooks,and his wife,Sophie. As the farming year progresses,and Harvest Supper and the Christmas concert are followed by a funeral and a wedding,Ivy weaves her web with cunning,not realising that she too is caught in its sticky threads...

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  Paperback
  2004

  $3.26

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  Hardcover
  1995

  $5.47

  None of the inhabitants of Round Ringford escape Ivy Beazley's vigil at her window. For example, a year after the Palmers moved in, Peggy Palmer's friendship with the unhappily married Bill Turner continues to annoy Ivy. As Ivy weaves her cunning web, she is unaware that she too is caught in it.