1935 - BOOK ONE OF "THE SPARROW TRILOGY" An English baronet dies and his son inherits the title, the fortune - and a French half-brother he didn't know existed. A pigeon race, a murder, infidelity and a light-hearted love story bring a cast of exceptional characters to a remote French village beside the Atlantic. A Week at St-Andre is a tale of hostility, romance, courage and nobility set within a quirky - though charming - world of the last century. The author's unerring sense of time and place brings to vivid life the foibles, the fashions, the cuisine and the art deco style of the doomed Third Republic.