A Price for Everything (by Mary Sheepshanks)

In the past eighteen months I have started re-reading, in a mostly organised fashion, the books by some of my favourite authors. I decided it was time to re-read my books by Mary Sheepshanks (confusingly also known as Mary Nickson). It had been quite a long time since I read any of them, so I decided to start with ‘A Price for Everything’, which I first read in 2006.

I had totally forgotten what this book was about, and the characters in it. So that was a good start - it felt like a new book,...