"In deepest, rural England, Fliss and Ivor Harley-Wright are dead broke and at their wits' ends in ancient, collapsing Little Waitling Hall. And since the Hall is not even theirs, they are at the beck and call of both Ivor's terrifying, exasperating mother, Titty, and the bank. Their one drop of hope lies in the sale of the family's sole resource - The Harley-Wright Collection of Commemorative Drinking Vessels, inherited from Ivor's father. Their potential savior comes in the dubious and unwilling form of the sharpish, youngish American, Tom Klaus, lawyer to an asset-stripping billionaire American - in short, an unlikely customer. Klaus is sent to scout out the goods with what he thinks is a very firm grasp of the English and their culture. Instead he finds mud, weeds in the kitchen, and Titty. Can the Harley-Wrights persuade Tom to love sodden Suffolk and pull them from their financial mire?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved