The Broad Highway

The Broad Highway is a novel by English author Jeffery Farnol. It is a best-seller, and it was the number one selling fiction book in the United States of the year.

Much of the novel is set in Sissinghurst, a small village South East England in Kent. Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters as well as a few neer-do-wells, meets with several disasters and triumphs, and eventually he meets "The Woman," who leads him to even more disasters and triumphs.