Betty Campbell's ex-girlfriend is in love with a Lauren Bacall look-alike and wants to use Letty's land for a car auction. Letty has a bad feeling about the new love in her ex's life, but can't figure out why in this funny lesbian crime story.
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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
This satisfying little English village cosy centers on the changing life of Letty Campbell, a thirtyish lesbian who raises chickens on a smallholding inherited from her aunt. In short order, Letty introduces local librarian Anne to the joys of lesbian nightlife in nearby Manchester, allows an elegant ex-lover to lease her property for a classic car auction, then falls into a serious relationship with Anne. Nothing goes amiss until the very end of Letty's narrative, when some suspect foreigners use the auction for international smuggling. Only minimally a mystery, then, but this first novel is evocative of warmth, charm, and intimacy.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
From Kirkus Reviews
Even though Letitia Campbell's latest lover, sleek Julia Rossi, chose her job at Classic Cars over the arcadian pleasures of life at the chicken farm that Letty inherited from her aunt, Letty's willing to let Julia inveigle her into renting out a couple of fallow acres for an auction of stratospherically-priced autos. Apart from the prominence of women (the dominant male character is Letty's squawky rooster Erik), most of them lesbian--from mobile librarian Anne Marple to copper Emma Auckland--the ensuing story has one thing in common with Nancy Drew's adventures: Even though its advertising, coupled with a few telltale signs--a quiet break-in, a dead chicken, the suspicious behavior of Julia's married lust-object Simone Steigel, Simone's receptionist, and vintage Mercedes owner Leisel Hopmann--suggests that there's dirty business afoot, no crimes are committed till the final scene, though Letty does find an enthusiastic new lover long before then. Readers scared off by the butch heroics of New Victoria's backlist can take comfort in Fritchley's first, a gentle lesbian love story with only a kiss of slow-burning mystery. -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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