By Frank Baker
When, at the spur of the instant, Norman Huntley and his good friend Henry invent an eighty-three-year-old lady referred to as leave out Hargreaves, they're encouraged to submit a letter to their new fictional pal. it is just intended to be a foolish, risk free game―until omit Hargreaves arrives on their doorstep. She is, to Norman's utter disbelief, precisely as he had imagined her: mesmerizing, eccentric, and eternally miraculous. He hadn't imagined, even though, how a lot havoc an imaginary octogenarian might wreak on his sleepy Buckinghamshire hometown.
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