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Beautifully written, witty and often very, very funny"
Spectator
Leslie Titmuss, the oily and self-seeking anti-hero of Paradise Postponed, has risen to
become Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Ecological Affairs and
Planning and is busily pursuing the beautiful Jenny Sidonia, widow of a left-wing
Oxford academic.
But market forces, in the shape of a huge development, are encroaching on rural
Rapstone Valley, the Secretary of State's own back garden'. The question is, should
the Rt Hon. Leslie Titmuss support or withstand these cataclysmic changes?
"One of the most accomnplished exponents of light fiction since P G. Wodehouse
GQ magazine
"Richly entertaining ... he presents a story with a gritty and immensely satisfying
plot which is mercilessly funny in its observations on the way we live now
Sunday Times
A writer with a Dickensian gift for character and rich, robust humour