Twelve Gnomes and a Budgerigar

Cricket. Hurling knives. Stray shotguns. And garden gnomes. Margery Millford had only expected one or two of these little annoyances to greet her when she arrived back in her childhood home of Little Pearshire - not the whole lot and more.
Like a spinster sister desperate for a mate ...
Or an undercover detective with no real cause to be undercover ...
Or an old flame (who may not be quite so old) ...
Not to mention a playwright, a redhead, and even a Scottish character! These residents comes together to create the nonsensical countryside village caught in a whirlwind of rumors, love, soup, and above all: a plan to foil the plan to overcome the other plan made possible by this plan sitting on the chair beside me.
Oh, yes, and there is that trouble of a budgerigar ...