Summer's Lease - the classic, international bestselling novel by
John Mortimer 'Amusing, entertaining ... and a cracking good read'
Sunday Express 'And summer's lease hath all too short a date' -
Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare It's high summer when Molly Pargeter
drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the
holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for
their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the
lives of the absent owners - and things start to go horribly wrong
... 'With a cosy fluency of wit, Mortimer charms us into his urbane
tangle of clues' Mail on Sunday Summer's Lease, which was made into
popular BBC TV mini-series starring John Gielgud, is a delightful
novel from Rumpole author John Mortimer: witty, compassionate,
humane, perfectly plotted and wonderfully readable. It will be
adored by readers of P.G Wodehouse and P.D. James. Sir John
Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist. His fictional
political trilogy of Paradise Postponed, Titmuss Regained and The
Sound of Trumpets has recently been republished in Penguin
Classics, together with Clinging to the Wreckage and his play A
Voyage round My Father. His most famous creation was the barrister
Horace Rumpole, who featured in four novels and around eighty short
stories. His books in Penguin include: The Anti-social Behaviour of
Horace Rumpole; The Collected Stories of Rumpole; The First Rumpole
Omnibus; Rumpole and the Angel of Death; Rumpole and the Penge
Bungalow Murders; Rumpole and the Primrose Path; Rumpole and the
Reign of Terror; Rumpole and the Younger Generation; Rumpole at
Christmas; Rumpole Rests His Case; The Second Rumpole Omnibus;
Forever Rumpole; In Other Words; Quite Honestly and Summer's Lease.
General
| Imprint: |
Penguin Books
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
February 2008 |
| Authors: |
John Mortimer
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| Dimensions: |
197 x 144 x 1mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - B-format
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| Pages: |
304 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-14-103487-4 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
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| LSN: |
0-14-103487-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780141034874 |
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