- Fiction, Excavations (Archaeology), Literature, England, fiction
In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure.
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- warmbleak
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- Author
- John Preston
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 230
- Publisher
- Penguin Group UK, Viking
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670914913
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John Preston is the arts editor and television critic of the Sunday Telegraph. He is the author of three highly acclaimed novels, including Kings of the Roundhouse (2005), and a travel book, Touching the Moon. He lives in London.
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