Part One of Oscar Fovarge’s trilogy set in the fictional locality of the Malvoir Valley in England’s County of Ware and Tare.

Instead of passing her landed estate to her only grandson, an elderly woman wills it to her middle-aged niece and her apparently wealthy, Californian husband. In need of ready cash to fund their lifestyles, the new landowners team up with the leader of the local Council to develop part of their greenbelt land. The move sparks upheaval in the local community, bringing into sharp focus the accumulated discontent with vested interests.

Into this turbulence step the Zielinskys, a large, extended family of entrepreneurial Polish workers. They are given free lodging in a dilapidated barn owned by Hugh, the dispossessed heir to his grandmother’s estate. At first, few realise what their arrival could mean for Hugh and rest of the Malvoir Valley.

Paperback: ISBN 978-1-9160843-7-7        400 pages

E-Book: ISBN 978-1-9160843-9-1