Clouds in a Summer Sky

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Welcome to Batch Magna, a place where anything might happen. And often does...

Life in an old steam boat deep in the Welsh Borders holds numerous charms, but the Commander's wife Priny is suffering from arthritis, a condition not at all improved by their water-based lifestyle. The couple take up an offer from Humphrey, the squire of Batch Hall, of a straight swap: their boat, theBatch Castle, for one of the Masters' Cottages facing their beloved river.

TheCastleis restored to river-worthiness and starts plying successfully as the Cluny Steamboat Company to Shrewsbury and back. As a resultit takes a good deal of profit away from a taxi firm in a local border town, much to the displeasure of the firm's English owner, Sidney Acton. Enlisting the aid of two corrupt Welsh councillors, Acton plots against the new venture. Only time will tell if his sabotage attempts will bear fruit or blow up in his face...

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Peter Maughanstudied at the Actor's Workshop in London, and worked as an actor in the UK and Ireland (in the heyday of Ardmore Studios). He founded and ran a fringe theatre in Barnes, London and, living on a converted Thames sailing barge among a small colony of houseboats on the River Medway, wrote pilot film scripts as a freelance deep in the green shades of rural Kent. He lives in a river valley in the Welsh Marches where he writes the Batch Magna novels.Visit Peter's website at http://www.batchmagna.com