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Mad Puppetstown, Paperback / softback Book

Mad Puppetstown Paperback / softback

Part of the Virago Modern Classics series

Paperback / softback

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In the early 1900s Easter lives with her Aunt Brenda, her cousins Evelyn and Basil, and their Great-Aunt Dicksie in an imposing country house, Puppetstown, which casts a spell over their childhood.

Here they spend carefree days taunting the peacocks in Aunt Dicksie's garden, shooting snipe and woodcock, hunting, and playing with Patsy, the boot boy.

But the house and its inhabitants are not immune to the 'little, bitter, forgotten war in Ireland' and when it finally touches their lives all flee to England.

All except Aunt Dicksie who refuses to surrender Puppetstown's magic.

She stays on with Patsy, living in a corner of the deserted house while in England the cousins are groomed for Society.

But for two of them those wild, lost Puppetstown years cannot be forgotten.

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