'There wouldn't be any trouble if only you had a wife, ' Lady Boynton had said. To mild-mannered Gervaise this was a new idea and the longer he thought about it, the more delightful it seemed. . . But Flavia Cameron was not what Lady Boynton had in mind. Impossibly young, with a musical talent that could have been heard in concert halls around the world, Flavia was beautiful and sparkling and she swept the Upper Fourth off their feet. Until Uncle Ben Forbes arrived, with a father whose dark wounded eyes unleashed a reaction in Flavia that she didn't know existed, throwing her life and everybody elses into turmoil.
Born and brought up at Eton where her father was a housemaster, Mary Sheepshanks began writing as a child and has her first poem published in the Sunday Times at the age of seventeen. She married the headmaster of Sunningdale school while still a very young woman and they ran the school together until 1967 when she and her husband moved up to take over his family estate in Yorkshire. Mary Sheepshanks has three children and a host of grandchildren - one of whom refers to her as his 'wild writing Granny'.
A Price for Everything is Mary Sheepshanks's remarkable debut novel.
