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John Hadfield: 'Love on a Branch Line', London, Hutchinson, 1959, 1st edition, signed in blue ink by author on FFEP, original cloth gilt, dust wrapper. 1959 comic novel that tells the story of a diffident member of the British Civil Service, Jasper Pye, who is sent to East Anglia to close a government department headquartered at a country estate. The setting is loosely based on the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway between Haughley and Laxfield, which closed in 1952, the year Hadfield moved to Suffolk.
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