Spinster Of The Parish

Plot

It is a year since Ivy Beasley,an ageing spinster with a waspish tongue and an all seeing eye,watched with deep suspicion as her new neighbours,the Palmer,movedinto Round Ringford Post Office.Peggy Palmer's warm friendship with unhappily married Bill Turner continues to infuriate Ivy,until her attention is disastrously caught by the arrival of the new vicar,Nigel Brooks,and his wife,Sophie. As the farming year progresses,and Harvest Supper and the Christmas concert are followed by a funeral and a wedding,Ivy weaves her web with cunning,not realising that she too is caught in its sticky threads...