The Happy Harold Stories

[sonofpendragon]

This is my collection of seven different short tales all about Harold Spencer, a ten year old rumbustious but (sometimes) loveable boy, who lives in 1940s Wiltshire, the village (best described as a docile backwater) of Plumley to be exact. The tales are from a simpler age, and the substance as well as the writing reflect that. Harold is joined in his daily shenanikins by his best friends, twins Tim and Larry Tucker, also the occasional and fairer member of his gang, the pale but pretty Betty Unsworth, and here and there pops up the village drunk and layabout - old Jim Meery (who is only 37 but looks a lot older). Going grey and wrinkled over their sort-of errant son are his parents Bernard and Ivy Spencer, and although a lot younger and not quite as grey, Harold's teacher, Mr Peregrine Bellard. As for his enemies, he has a few here and there but the main one is fellow pupil and son of a local bigwig - Lionel 'Ripper' Bullstock, if he doesn't manage to threaten Harold's carefree life then backing him up is the equally pug-ugly brute, his father, Brigadier Heath Bullstock - Harold is more wary of him than of his son.

Across the seven tales, Harold and a carthorse turn heads at a local sporting event, donates tons of sand which isn't his to the whole village, is involved in an amateur car rally, unwittingly aids the local farmer in pest control, promises the stoic Miss Constance Major - leader of the local temperance society - to give up the bottle; achieves the very real (for once, and it doesn't last long) status of local hero, relieves Farmer Glumm ('ole Glumboil') of a brand new top-secret variety of apple - the Cumbrian Galaxy, and finally to the relief of the whole village (and to the groans of the good residents of Rhyl and its environs), goes off for a week's holiday - but here he brings about just as much chaos as he does at home, and gets embroiled in a heinous plot to ruin famed holiday camp owner - Toby Whitmore.

Although each of the seven stories are available as separate ebooks for less than a Pound GB, of course the entire compendium in one ebook is far better value; although Amazon themselves do let the price rise and fall, it is usually aorund £3.27 GB Pounds / $4.99 US

I know there are many epub fans here, but I am in the middle of creating epubs of all my stuff, but none are ready yet.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00507FNOQ

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00507FNOQ