Dinosaur Days Author:Jill Laurimore A common ro garden tale of poverty, riches - and getting rid of the potholes in your drive. — Fliss and Ivor Harley-Wright are on their upers - dead broke in ancient, crumbling Little Watling Hall, and enthralled under the dual malign powers of Ivor's mother, the exasperating Titty, and the painfully youthful Under Manager at the bank. Rescue li... more »es in the sale of their only asset - an inherited collection of Commerative Drinking Vessels - and Constantine Ziminovski, American billionair asset-stripper, seems a likely customer. But first, they have to win over his unwilling emissary, Mr. Metropolitan Man - the sharp(ish), young(ish) lawyer Tom Klaus, who has little idea of what awaits him. Mud. Weeds in the kitchen. Wearing someone else's old wellington boots.
Can the Harley-Wrights persuade Tom to love a sodden Suffolk and thus pull themselves out of their financial mire?« less
I found it a bit dry, but British humor tends to be that. Although the author was born in the US, she seems to have adopted Brritish style in her writing. That doesn't mean others wouldn't find this book interesting.