Pigeon Fancying in Leicestershire

by JohnLittlefair (Author)

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  2019

  $3.51

  Pigeon Fancying is a light hearted and amusing story involving two interwoven plots. Lanfranco DeLuca, an Italian emigre made good, who lives in the Leicestershire countryside, has a passion for pigeon racing. His prize breeding bird, recently bought at great expense, is failing to perform his stud duties. Desperate measures involving an avian kidnapping are necessary to restore DeLuca's pride and purse. Joe Landseer is tired of life, or at least of London. He is torn between a taste of bucolic harmony restoring the dilapidated small holding in Leicestershire bequeathed him by a great aunt, and a career in Brixton as a struggling journalist supported by his ambitious partner Louise. To complicate matters he falls in love with Alice, a scientist working in Leicester on Pigeon Fancier's Lung, who gets caught up in DeLuca's scam. Walter is a man of few words, but great sagacity. He takes Joe under his wing and resolves both his dilemma, and the mystery of the barren pigeon.