All's Fair in Love and Law: Small Town Tales of Life, Laughter and Litigation - Hardcover

Hammond, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1409131610 ISBN 13: 9781409131618

Publisher: Orion Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Dufty Dufty Popple & Dunn is a traditional solicitors' firm in the small Midlands town of Hockam (pronounced Hokum, as the local residents are at pains to point out). This heartwarming collection of stories revolves around the lives, relationships, triumphs, and failures of the good people of Hockam and of the lawyers to whom they look for help. We meet the lonely dentist and his noisy neighbors, the TV celebrity chef and his complex family, the policeman and his beloved budgies, the Vicar and the Major General, the greedy beneficiary of an uncle's Will. These and many others bring their problems to Dufty Dufty Popple & Dunn to be resolved by the long-suffering and well-meaning members of the firm, all of whom have their own lives to live when time permits, from Bernard, the hapless trainee, to Hugo Dufty, the nominal senior partner. And then, of course, there are the ever-present rumors concerning Robert Popple, the former partner who departed from the firm some years previously in mysterious circumstances. The whole symphony of life portrayed here is conducted with gentle humor and charm by Hugo's father, Charles Dufty, who founded the firm 50 years ago and whose wisdom and deep understanding of the human condition helps to make sense of even the most difficult and apparently insoluble problems. In this humorous and touching debut collection, Alan Hammond paints a timeless portrait of life in a rural English town. Welcome to Hockam.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan Hammond worked in North Yorkshire as a legal executive and his experiences there became the inspiration for the stories in his first book, All's Fair in Love and Law.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1409131610
• ISBN 13: 9781409131618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256