Description

The hilarious first Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue.
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Meet Henry Wilt.

Professionally overlooked. Demoralised at home. Passed over for promotion yet again.

At work, he faces yet more years of trying to force literature into the heads of students who’d rather be anywhere else. At home, his irrepressible wife Eva throws herself into one obsession after another, while Wilt’s patience wears thinner by the day.

But if he can do nothing about his job, perhaps he can do something about his wife.

As each day passes, his fantasies grow more murderous and more real . . .

Tom Sharpe’s wildly funny classic is a brilliantly outrageous tale of frustration, farce and misunderstanding, and one of the greatest comic novels of the twentieth century.

Publisher Review

His best novel yet ... Mr Sharpe has taken a great stride towards being considered a major craftsman in the art of farce -- Auberon Waugh * Evening Standard * This delightful book ... lives, rises and triumphs by a slicing wit * Daily Mirror * Superb farce ... If you don't laugh your head off, Crippen wasn't guilty * Tribune * Mr. Sharpe's farce has a gritty satirical edge to it, and the world his embattled central character inhabits is all too real * Sunday Times * Tom Sharpe piles slapstick upon slapstick with the ingenious dexterity of a music-hall illusionist * Sunday Telegraph *