The Fairway Players are once again desperate to put on a fabulous production (however improbable), this time to raise money for a new church roof. They plan is a panto mashup of “Jack and the Beanstalk” with a surprise Santa. But the real surprise comes when dress rehearsal reveals a dead body hidden inside the long-forgotten beanstalk prop.
Steve “Smithy” Smith is both Magwitch and Pip in this unusual story of wild expectations and the long-delayed solution to a mystery that has haunted him for decades.
There’s an Irish saying: “May you get all your wishes but one, so that you will always have something to strive for.” I’d say the bookworm has this covered – there is always one more book to read.
Pavement slipp’ry, people sneezing / Lords in ermine, beggars freezing / Titled gluttons dainties carving / Genius in a garret starving. January, 1795 by Mary Darby Robinson