The Upstart

by Piers Paul Read

Book Overview

Hilary Fletcher is the clever son of a humble vicar. When his father takes up the living at Lasterby in Yorkshire, Hilary finds himself equally ill-at-ease in both the grand drawing rooms of the manor... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0397009666
• ISBN13: 9780397009664
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

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