Stepping Stones: Book 1 This Far by William (Bill) Stenlake (3 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Stepping Stones; This Far Harry Wrothstockly writes letters to several country estates, as part of his history assignment at sixth form. The very last thing he expected a few years later, was the letter he received from Tom Forrester's Executor. Tom Forrester was a bachelor, who owned Stepping Stones. Stepping Stones Estate had not responded to Harry's letter at the time, but apparently Tom Forrester had read it and hung onto it. For reasons only known to Tom Forrester, he leaves everything to Harry Wrothstockly, Harry will find out that the estate has been mismanaged over Tom's lifetime. The walled garden and the gardens around the house have been neglected and are overgrown. A good number of the fields have been sold off by Tom over the years. The remaining fields have been left fallow for decades. The house itself is rundown, tired and neglected too. But some good news; the roof appears to be solid enough. The bad news is that Harry and his wife, Jo, have to take out a mortgage, to pay off the last of the tax due and the solicitor's bill for administrating the estate, before they can take on the house and estate. Everyone expects that Harry will inherit and then put the estate up for sale, but Harry has other ideas. There are discoveries, about the house and its history, which guide his thinking over how he develops Stepping Stones. All was going well until Harry fell down the stairs to the basement one day. That changed things a little. Read about that and how Harry & Jo have transformed Stepping Stones back into life.

Genre: Family Life