Summer At Tangents is a superb comic novel set in the village of Tangents, with its poorly attended church and struggling golf club. The diocese is now threatening to close the church. The vicar’s friend, Willoughby Cornwallis, a crafty golf club committeeman, acts to save the church in ways which also benefit the golf club and his friends, but which also involve conning almost everyone along the way. What unfolds is a beautifully crafted tale involving many laugh-out loud moments.
One of the subplots involves the vicar’s attempts to win a club trophy, despite, in the words of his friend, having “all the composure on the green of a man being tasered whilst disco dancing during an earthquake.”
