To the manor born (by Peter Spence)

(Amazon UK link) I watched some of the BBC sitcom ‘To the manor born’ when it first came out, towards the end of the 1970s and early 1980s. We acquired a DVD set of the complete series many years ago, although we have not watched them for a while. But I don’t think I had realised that there were accompanying books, written by Peter Spence (who also wrote most of the TV scripts). 
I found the books at a church book stall some years ago, and finally decided to read the first one which is simply enti...