- Hardcover: 264 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company (5 Feb 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316725811
- ISBN-13: 978-0316725811
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,322,355 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Brian Aldiss is one of the most influential - and one of the best - SF writers Britain has ever produced' - Iain Banks
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Hampden Ferrars is an obscure country village, not too distant from Oxford. Its village church, St Clements, is 1,500 years old, and some of the villagers decide that this record of continuity and stability should be celebrated. Many are the difficulties in the way. Foreigners arrive - in particular, two Chinese students and an Italian TV celebrity - and love affairs break out, some suitable, some less suitable. The atmosphere of romance engenders miracles. Slowly, the village becomes involved in magic. Ordinary lives are transformed. Then a threat emanates from within the church itself. The atmosphere darkens as the celebration committee has to decide who is really in command of the world. Brian Aldiss' novel brims with comic and sinister invention. The celebration is not only for St Clements but for Englishness, for the love of the foreign and for love itself.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Pompous rubbish,
By MimDee (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Affairs at Hampden Ferrers (Hardcover)
This book had no plot to speak of, continually introduced new characters and made its characters speak of such obscure things, the average reader wouldn't follow it. There was no excitement, it was also quite depressing. Totally not worth reading. I only got three-quarters of the way through because I was on a train and had nothing else to read!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Another masterpiece from one of our greatest writers,
By BarondeCharlus (uk) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Affairs at Hampden Ferrers (Hardcover)
The previous reviewer should stick to Harry Potter, or some such juvenile rubbish, for his train journeys. This is a work typical of Aldiss in that the profundity of its ideas are presented through a clarity of style and wayward imagination. It demands a close reading and some serious thinking. I view the world differently after reading an Aldiss novel. Highly recommended.
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