The Linnet's Tale (A Mouse Story for Grownups) (The Tottensea Series) Review
Consider the lively company of field mice who live in Tottensea Burrows—a thriving little village which, unfortunately, occupies the same space as the back garden of an English country cottage. There, hidden in the shrubbery and the vines and the lyme grass, the mice have their homes, their shops, their pubs and a grand town hall. And there they buy and sell, read books, give teas, have romances, plan cotillions, build gadgets, make jam…. But when The Man and The Woman of The Cottage discover this...well, there's some trouble, isn't there. A bit of a rumpus. And…an adventure!
"Dale C. Willard's delightful The Linnet's Tale ought to become a classic…. A comedy of manners on a very small scale, this book should be savored."
—Deborah Wormser, The Dallas Morning News
"This charming book, inspired by a family of field mice living on the author's back porch, hints of Dickens, Jane Austen, Watership Down and such children's classics as Wind in the Willows and The Borrowers. Yet it's ultimately its own story of a delightful community of idiosyncratic field mice living in proximity to a family of people and engaged in the romances, adventures and domestic dramas found in any community."
—Joan Hinkemeyer, Rocky Mountain News
"…a delectable little trifle--a romance, even--for grown-ups who would like a respite from adult content."
—Eleanor Edmondson, Bas Bleu
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