Tyler's Row: Read Miss

Miss Read heard about the sale of Tyler`s Row from the always well-informed Mrs Pringle - and before long Fairacre is alive with rumours. Why were the present owners selling? Was it true that a football poolswinner was about to buy it? Had Tyler`s Row been condemned - or was it to be restored?

All rumours are soon laid to rest when Peter and Donna Hale arrive in Fairacre to view Tyler`s Row, with plans to knock the middle two cottages into one, and create their own rural haven.

But the Hales soon discover that Fairacre is no Utopia but a normal English village, with all the usual troubles...