![]() When Simon turns 21, he will inherit Latchetts and a large trust fund left by his mother. ![]() Bee has kept the estate going by turning the family stable into a profitable business and combining breeding, selling and training horses with riding lessons. Since then, the Ashbys have been short of money. The Ashby family consists of Beatrice Ashby ("Aunt Bee"), a spinster of about 50, and the four children of her late brother Bill: Simon, 20 Eleanor, 18–19 and the twins Jane and Ruth, 9.īill and his wife Nora died eight years earlier. It takes place in the late 1940s, after World War II. Their centuries-old family estate is Latchetts, in the fictional village of Clare, near the south coast of England. ![]() The story is about the Ashbys, an English country-squire family. Brat Farrar is a 1949 crime novel by Josephine Tey, based in part on the Tichborne case. ![]()
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