Deze meeslepende saga volgt het fortuin van een ambitieuze familie over decennia, gesitueerd tegen de achtergrond van tumultueuze sociale en politieke veranderingen. Het verkent de botsing tussen idealisme en pragmatisme, klassenverschillen en persoonlijke verlangens. De verhalen duiken in complexe relaties, morele dilemma's en het streven naar macht en status binnen een dynamisch evoluerend Engeland.
Why does Simeon Simcox, the CND-marching Rector of Rapstone Fanner, leave his fortune not to his two sons but to an odious Tory Minister? Mortimer's novel unveils the follies and passions of an astonishing array of characters and English life.
Leslie Titmuss is the anti-hero of "Paradise Postponed", portrayed on screen by David Threlfall. In this novel, John Mortimer continues the rise of the complaisant Titmuss, now married to a second unpleasant wife. The author has also written the "Rumpole" series of books.
The acclaimed creator of Rumpole of the Bailey gives us a hugely entertaining chronicle of English life since World War II in these two novels published together for the first time. Both dramatized on the popular PBS Masterpiece Theater series, these stories present a brilliant commentary on the England of yesterday and today.