This book was a little-too-late nostalgic indulgence for me, as my dear friend and writing mentor passed away recently. He wrote and published these anecdotes of a bygone era before I even knew him. While I enjoyed Christopher Scott's fictional writings, I delighted even more in hearing, this time, about how he became and worked as a land agent, so long ago in England. It was as though we were immersed in a different chapter of Downton Abbey. Charming and oh-so-proper, for the most part. I'm sorry I didn't read them in time to ask him about them, but the book, along with his novels, is a keepsake I will treasure.