Description
Martin Sproale is a mild, conventional assistant postmaster in his mid-thirties living in an English coastal town. The only exceptional thing about this model of this small-town conformity is his passionate obsession with the life, work and personality of Ernest Hemingway. This is confined harmlessly enough to an encyclopaedic knowledge of everythingabout the man and to living in a room surrounded by Hemingway memorabilia. But when an ambitious young outsider, Nick Marshall, is appointed postmaster over Martin’s head and starts to transform the friendly, old-fashioned local post office for privatisation and the high-tech challenges of the twenty-first century, Martin is faced with a choice – to be his usual agreeable self and go along with the drastic changes, or to be like his hero and fight for what he believes in.
