A bishop dies, a new bishop is appointed, along with his wife and his curate and things in Barchester go absolutely hog wild, or as hog wild as it gets for Barchester. The new bishop's unpopular, the wife is domineering, the curate is scheming. This leaves our beloved gang from The Warden in doubt and confusion, the issue of the hospital warden returns, as does a family from Italy with ideas of their own, and lots of people become interested in or unjustly angry at the good widow Bold. It's like Hobbiton, if Hobbiton was real, and Anglican.