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The Property People

出版	Independently Published, 2020-08-11
主題	Fiction / Sagas
ISBN	9798673294505
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oLbEzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋It is 1953. A bankrupt Britain is struggling to recover from the cost of the second world war, kept afloat by American loans. Some food is still rationed.John Tucker is a member of the new, rising meritocracy. He loses his father, his place at Cambridge, his family home, and his prospects of academic advancement. He discovers Alison Stacey is the cause. Is he upset? Is he furious? You bet he is!Alison is descended from an old aristocratic family and has a strong sense of social superiority. She believes in putting people like John Tucker in their place. However, when her luxurious life is threatened, she does not know how to cope. Who can she turn to solve the economic disaster which threatens to overwhelm her?Sarah Grant is bored by her role as wife to a local professional businessman. She refuses to comply with the attempts by men to subjugate women. She is determined to use her recent legacy to bring richness into her life. Does this mean she will need to manipulate other people? Perhaps they will have to be handled carefully.These characters work out their ambitions and their problems against the backdrop of rural South Devon, where the population is just emerging from the period of post-war deprivation into the realisation of the benefits of home-ownership which is replacing the old practice of renting the houses that they live in from the owners of the large estates.However, underlying their struggles is a mystery which goes back to before the Great War when a happy young couple set out to find a new life in America on board the Titanic.John Tucker is Devon ́s response to Cornwall ́s Ross Poldark.Alison Stacy is the successor to Mary Crawley in Downton Abbey.