WHEN THE GREEN WOODS LAUGH

Pop Larkin, junk-dealer, family man and Dragon's Blood connoisseur, manages to sell a nearby crumbling country home to city dwellers Mr and Mrs Jerebohm for a pretty bundle of notes. Now he can build his daughter Mariette the pool she has long been nagging him for. But the Larkins' new neighbours aren't quite so accepting of country ways, especially Pop's little eccentricities. In fact, it's not long before an accident in a wobbly boat becomes an incident, and Pop finds himself up before a magistrate. 'Pop is as sexy, genial, generous, and boozy as ever. Ma is a worthy match for him in all these qualities.' - The Times. 121 page Penguin paperback.