Mrs Tim Flies Home - Mrs. Tim, Bk 4 Author:Dorothy Emily Peploe (Writing as D. E. Stevenson) The final novel in the four-book Mrs. Tim series finds Hester Christie more lovable than ever. Leaving husband Tim (now a colonel) in Kenya, Mrs. Tim flies home to her children for the summer in her beloved North Country. — Once installed in The Small House in Old Quinings, a host of local characters and old friends brighten -- and shadow -- Hest... more »er's life. She becomes the victim of gossipy innuendoes and has a trying time with a singularly unpleasant landlady.
But two young romances enliven the village, and Mrs. Tim closes her diary on a note of infectious happiness.« less
D.E. Stevenson wrote quaint rustic romances of the time around WWII, during and after. The values seem old-fashioned by todays standards. In other words, her books are clean.