Benita Staveley, known as Ben, has no patience with letting the Fates arrange things, so she opens an advisory bureau in London to sort out the troubles of anyone who will pay. Her clients include a dying Canadian who wants to hear an English nightingale once more, and the narrator is roped in to help with commission after commission.
A gently comic novel from the essayist and Punch writer, light as a summer afternoon. Download the free EPUB.