Timintootal is the third biggest town in the Southwest of Caledonia and until nineteen-sixty-four it was open farmland surrounding an ancient village on the road north between Knapsdaile and Glenfinnan, Caledonia’s biggest city.
After many years of spectacular growth, what was once quite the mouthful for its many visitors to say it was shortened, by the local inhabitants, to simply Timintootal and it’s in this colourful part of Caledonia that the story begins.
To reiterate, the description doesn’t actually get as far as telling us anything about the story itself.
Among many other problems, that description and that cover don’t match!
Note that it doesn’t even say what Timintootal was shortened from. Not that this would give us a clue to what the book’s about.