Unaccustomed Spirits

THE MOUNTJOY NOVELS - a romantic comedy series, complete with ghosts, musicians, aristocrats and eccentrics in the best tradition of Wodehouse and Trollope.

Struck down with shingles, Cleo Byng postpones her wedding and leaves behind her pressured City job to convalesce and house-sit in her cousin’s remote house in the depths of an Eyotshire winter. Which proves to be something of a mistake, for Haphazard House is a grand, tumbledown Tudor pile with too many carved beds and no central heating.
But, as Christmas approaches, an eclectic mix of friends, family and interested parties descend on the old house in search of company, accommodation and the unquiet

Cleo herself, questioning both her direction in life and the wisdom of convalescing in a haunted and freezing mansion.
Henry Hazard, an enigmatic Gothic cartoonist and the owner of Haphazard House.
Adele, a dress designer with a talent for reinventing herself.
Will, a charming musician with a passion for ghost-hunting.
Prue, heavily pregnant and on the run from the Hungarian secret police.
Elizabethan courtier Giles and Parliamentarian officer Lambert, Haphazard House’s long-term residents.

Will Cleo keep Haphazard House from being pulled - or falling - down? Can she help Prue escape from behind the Iron Curtain? And exactly who is playing the lute at all hours and interfering with the TV reception?