A Knock on the Door - Brown, Thomas Richard
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Isolated in the rural backwater of north Bedfordshire in the late 1950s, where agriculture is still the dominant industry, a group of teenagers struggle to contain their developing characters and emotions, their high jinks causing trouble for the village. A benefactor provides them with a place to meet in an attempt to protect the disapproving community from their exuberance. Everything goes well until one of their number is trapped in a horrific situation that's completely beyond their control. The enormity of the offence committed and the reaction of the offender shocks everyone. The climax…mehr

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Isolated in the rural backwater of north Bedfordshire in the late 1950s, where agriculture is still the dominant industry, a group of teenagers struggle to contain their developing characters and emotions, their high jinks causing trouble for the village. A benefactor provides them with a place to meet in an attempt to protect the disapproving community from their exuberance. Everything goes well until one of their number is trapped in a horrific situation that's completely beyond their control. The enormity of the offence committed and the reaction of the offender shocks everyone. The climax comes when a surprising revelation results in a misunderstanding and tragic consequences for all involved.
Autorenporträt
Richard Brown was born in 1943 the second of four children of a farming family in the west of the old rural county of Huntingdonshire. After education at Kimbolton School, he graduated with a degree in Agriculture from Wye College, London University, in 1966. Within a few years of returning from university he was running the farm, a job he did until retirement, which then gave more time for other pursuits. He started writing at the age of 65 and, after producing several versions of a semi-autobiographical work, commenced Mary Knighton in November 2009. On completion of this epic story he returned to the semi-autobiographical theme and has produced a quartet of shorter pieces; Thisbie, Long Stop, Postman's Knock and Feeding the Pigs. Of these Thisbie and Postman's Knock are complete but the other two are work in progress. They all have a rural theme as in Mary Knighton.