What can Titus Bellamy want in Turnham Malpas? Is it true that he has discovered a medieval charter granting the right to hold a market on their village green? Meanwhile, to celebrate twenty-five years of happy marriage, Neville Neal decides to throw a lavish party. If he had consulted his wife Liz, he would have found that she had a different view of their marriage. The anniversary party and the market on the green mark the beginning and end of two quite different relationships; the events of the summer are a match for anything Turnham Malpas has witnessed before.