Gates
''Assured, skilful, delicately comic and mutedly sad... a very good writer'' The Sunday Times
Once, the villagers would tip their hats respectfully when the McMahons drove out through the ornate iron gates at the end of the drive. But that was back in the days when the Major''s family were prosperous. Now the estate is slipping into peaceful decay - and so, it seems, is the Major, its last occupant...
''Assured, skilful, delicately comic and mutedly sad... a very good writer'' The Sunday Times
Once, the villagers would tip their hats respectfully when the McMahons drove out through the ornate iron gates at the end of the drive. But that was back in the days when the Major''s family were prosperous. Now the estate is slipping into peaceful decay - and so, it seems, is the Major, its last occupant...
