A laugh-a-minute tour of the quirks and foibles, highs and lows of running Britain’s highest inn – so isolated that its next-door neighbour was four miles away and so high above sea level that it had its own climate, with winds that could tear car doors off their hinges and winter snows that cut off the inn for weeks on end.
Neil Hanson’s account of his time at the inn, grappling with tight-fisted farmers, eccentric characters, bizarre local customs, naturist weekends, ‘lates and lock-ins’, police raids by appointment, rats in the attic, close encounters with magistrates and planners, and the shooting of a famous double glazing commercial, promises to be hugely entertaining.