Description
The Right Honourable Leslie Titmuss, the abrasive high-flyer who rose from poverty to power in Paradise Postponed, is now Secretary of State at H.E.A.P., the Ministry of Housing, Ecological Affairs and Planning, and in pursuit of the beautiful Jenny Sidonia, widow of a socialist Oxford don.
Market forces are sweeping up the Rapstone Valley and secret plans are being made to change it. Titmuss Regained is the story of what happens when these seismic movements shake the Secretary of State’s back garden.
‘Richly entertaining…In this book, as in so many previous ones, 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
‘Beautifully written, witty and often very, very funny’ – Spectator
‘A delightful book, funny, wise and ultimately very sad’ – The New York Times Book Review
‘Gloriously witty satire’ – Cosmopolitan
Paperback, 347 pages. In very good preloved condition with the exception of a crease to the back cover.