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Oxford Blue
This is the sixth Kate Ivory novel.
At the end of 1993 I left the Oxford suburb
where I had lived for many years and moved into a cottage
in a small village overlooking the Chilterns. This is rural
Oxfordshire - no shops, no Post Office, no buses, one expensive
pub. The cottage has views across farmland and river, and
the peace of the countryside is broken by tractors and helicopters,
kids on motorbikes and barking dogs. There are also a lot
of trainee vicars.
In Oxford Blue, Kate, too, has moved out to
the country for a while, and into a village that is not entirely
unlike my own. The peace of her countryside is soon broken
by the murder of her gardener, however. Her life is further
complicated by the reappearance of her mother, Roz, who has
been off on the hippy trail (as far as we can gather) since
Kate was seventeen. Mother and daughter begin, gingerly, to
find a working relationship.
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner called Oxford
Blue 'A classy crime thriller in the English tradition.'
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