Love on a Branch Line (novel)
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Love on a Branch Line is a 1959 comic novel
by John Hadfield
. It involved Jasper Pye, a diffident member of the British Civil Service
being sent to Arcady Hall in Norfolk
to close down a government department there. He finds it to be a rural idyll, and encounters a number of problems with closing the place down.
The book was critically acclaimed and sold very well. It was adapted for television Love on a Branch Line (TV series)
in 1994 with Michael Maloney
starring as Jasper Pye, and a number of leading British actors appearing.
Novel
A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....
by John Hadfield
John Hadfield
John Charles Heywood Hadfield, was a British author and publisher, best known for his novel Love on a Branch Line....
. It involved Jasper Pye, a diffident member of the British Civil Service
British Civil Service
Her Majesty's Home Civil Service, also known as the Home Civil Service, is the permanent bureaucracy of Crown employees that supports Her Majesty's Government - the government of the United Kingdom, composed of a Cabinet of ministers chosen by the prime minister, as well as the devolved...
being sent to Arcady Hall in Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
to close down a government department there. He finds it to be a rural idyll, and encounters a number of problems with closing the place down.
The book was critically acclaimed and sold very well. It was adapted for television Love on a Branch Line (TV series)
Love on a Branch Line (TV series)
Love on a Branch Line is a British television adaptation of the 1959 novel Love on a Branch Line by John Hadfield. It was broadcast in 1994 airing on the BBC in four 50 minute episodes.-Cast:-Synopsis:...
in 1994 with Michael Maloney
Michael Maloney
Michael Maloney is an English actor.Born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Maloney's first television appearance was as Peter Barkworth's teenage son in the 1979 drama series, Telford's Change....
starring as Jasper Pye, and a number of leading British actors appearing.