When I cracked WIMBEY’S CORNER opened for the first time, I was immediately pulled into the tale of Wayne Hunter. A third of the way into the book, my reading experience was hampered a bit because of a shift in the story in order to provide the background of the residents of Wimbey’s Corner – a lot of which did not add value to the story. Also, there was a very substantial subplot which involves a different main character, Tommy Brown, was added midway in the book. I would have preferred that both Wayne’s and Tommy’s stories were told in parallel instead using alternating scenes or chapters and then brought together in the climatic ending. I did enjoy WIMBEY’S CORNER despite the flaw in the execution of the novel.