Drove House has always loomed large over village life. Boarded-up for years, it is reputed to be brimming with ghosts, and is shunned by the locals - all except Billy, for whom it has been the site of childhood dens and secret adolescent adventures. When the captivating Muriel moves in with her bohemian mother, they sweep out the ghosts and breathe new life into both the house and Billy's quiet rural existence. After an idyllic summer, though, Muriel returns to her life in London, and the newly empty Drove House becomes the backdrop for Billy's struggle to reconcile the vanishing agricultural lifestyle he has inherited with the glimpses of a baffling new way of life Muriel seemed to offer. Charting the conflict between these two competing worlds, Peter Benson's award-winning first novel is at once a lyrical portrait of the landscape of the Somerset Levels and a touching evocation of first love.
- ISBN10 0094735301
- ISBN13 9780094735309
- Publish Date 28 March 1994 (first published 23 March 1987)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 1 August 2007
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Constable
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 172
- Language English