BOOK: Love among the walnuts by Ferris

[Frederick Muller <fmuller@TELLURIAN.NET>]

Ferris, Jean._Love among the walnuts_, 1998 [0-15-201590-6]
This is a humorous book that has the feel of a sitcom.  Sandy's
parents, who are very wealthy, decide to leave the rat race and
move to the country just before Sandy is born.  They build the
house next to a home for "distressed" called Walnut manor.
Sandy's uncles, in a plot to get the family money, try to poison his
parents and this puts them into a coma.  They eventually end up
next store at Walnut manor where their young nurse helps the
Walnut patients begin to get a grasp on reality.  In a series of
misadventures, they find Walnut manor is going bankrupt, the
uncles continue to try to get rid of Sandy's parents, the chauffeur
tries to mix up an antidote to the poison, and Sandy falls in love
with the nurse.  Of course everything works out fine in the end and
there are multiple marriages.  This 216 page book is a lot of fun
and reminded me of Cresswell's Bagthorpe saga.  My only
reservation is that all but one of the characters are adults so it may
not hold kids's interest.
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