A hilarious dose of British farce from Tom Sharpe, the bestselling author of Wilt and Porterhouse Blue.
Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his national service in the Marines before going to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961, and from 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. He is the author of sixteen bestselling novels, including Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape which were serialised on television, and Wilt which was made into a film. In 1986 he was awarded the XXIIIeme Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret and in 2010 he received the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. Tom Sharpe died in June 2013 at his home in northern Spain.
[A] romp about one of nature's gentlemen making his innocent and
ruthless way through the jungle of contemporary sex, VAT, law and
order, etc. - savage, knock-about farce
*Observer*
Black humour, comic anarchy at its best
*Sunday Times*
All done with a savage delight which will have you laughing out
loud
*Daily Mirror*
He is funny, bitter, a danger to his public and should be applauded
wildly by all
*The Listener*
His tale of an illegitimate member of the squirearchy earning his
inheritance by increasingly nasty methods is both inventive and
pacy
*New Statesman*
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