When I first looked over 'The flying inn', I assumed that this inn would be airborne. This, however, seems to have been a modern misinterpretation: the inn is merely fleeing across England.
In this novel, a new law states that alcohol may only be served in inns with a particular sign. Another law virtually forbids any inn to have such a sign. Two old friends, Humphrey Pump and Patrick Dalroy, therefore take the sign of an inn, a keg of rum and a cheese, and travel across the country. Sometimes they place the sign, and there is temporarily an inn at that location. Before authorities find out, they flee again.
On one occasion, they perform a practical joke with this sign: when the proponent of the anti-alcohol law gives a public speech, they place the inn sign outside of the conference center. The people who subsequently enter the hall manage to create a serious disruption.
This 'flying inn' is thus the topic of the book; the antithesis between these two men and the politicians who shaped these new laws promises to become interesting.
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