Midsummer Meeting

by Elvi Rhodes

Petra came into the close village community of Mindon when she was unexpectedly left a cottage there by an old friend of her mother's. She was lonely and unsettled - her parents had been killed in a car accident, her boyfriend had decided to go back to his wife, and as a painter she led a solitary life in her North Yorkshire home town. But she felt immediately at home in the gracious stone house that had been bequeathed to her, and was made welcome by the local residents - in particular, by the members of the Mindon Amateur Dramatic Society (somewhat appropriately known as MADS) presided over by the formidable Ursula. Ursula liked to run things her way, and brooked no opposition when the ambitious decision was made (largely by herself) to put on A Midsummer Night's Dream as their next production. Petra , to her surprise and pleasure, was put in charge of the wardrobe.





Rivalries, squabbles, love affairs and seething resentments threatened to scupper the production, and all Ursula's managerial skills were needed to prevent disaster. But Petra had more pressing things on her mind than the costumes for the cast. A mystery from her past began to haunt her - and the answer to that mystery might solve the puzzle of why she had been left such a beautiful house by a total stranger.

400 pages, Paperback

First published May 4, 2000

Reviews

[Bionic Jean · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring.

[Angela Lewis · Rating 3 out of 5]

A time filler, entertaining enough. Petra has inherited a house from her mother's friend. She knows nothing of the woman but decides to move to Mindon in England where she joins the local dramatics group and meets her partner. Delving into her past whilst searching the attic of her new home she comes across a photograph she knows and then some drawn images that send her in search of her mother's past.

[Norma Kirby · Rating 4 out of 5]

Village life

I quite enjoyed this book, I've always been interested in village life and this book shows us a little of what it is like.

[Sandy Aragon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable!

Very interesting and lovely story with the backdrop of putting together a small town's production of a Shakespearean play. Romantic too!

[Jean M. Arnold · Rating 5 out of 5]

entertaining light read with quirky but funny characters

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

another English romance, a little slow but I like'em slow!

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this.