Octavo blue cloth with black title and pictorial cottage + gilt titled spine (tips rubbed/sl.marked) 192pp +8pp publisher's catalogue dated 18-3-91. Ownership R. Heath on endpaper else neat and tight. *An unusual story of a bullying husband and his half brother who is their neighbor and a rough bad lad. He tries to intervene but it all goes wrong. An interesting sub theme is a shy vicar who only at the end learns to assert himself and thereby becomes more helpful to his flock.