Deze serie volgt de mislukkingen van een nogal onsuccesvolle leraar wiens alledaagse bestaan voortdurend wordt verstoord door onverwachte gebeurtenissen. Geconfronteerd met ongeïnteresseerde studenten en een verstikkend privéleven, raakt hij ongewild verstrikt in dramatische situaties, waaronder politieonderzoeken en moordbeschuldigingen. Met een combinatie van passieve veerkracht, levendige fantasie en een uniek droge humor, navigeert hij echter door deze chaotische omstandigheden. Het zijn humoristische verhalen vol situationele komedie, onverwachte plotwendingen en de kenmerkende charme van Britse satire.
Henry Wilt has been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, carpenters, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his wife Eva is given to unpredictable fits of enthusiasm - for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline.
A novel which continues the saga of Henry Wilt, an innate coward and hen-pecked husband whose escapades include a drunken (and very painful) battle with a rosebush, an all-consuming infatuation with an overseas student, and becoming an unwilling participant in an armed siege. From the author of RIOTOUS ASSEMBLY and GRANTCHESTER GRIND.
Een alledaagse leraar raakt verzeild in onmogelijke situaties.
Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical facilities, deftly exposing the farcic
Stuck in a job he doesn't want but can't afford to lose, Wilt is still subject to the whims of the powers that be, both in and out of work. The demands of his snobbish wife Eva, and the stupendous school fees of his despicable quadruplet daughters, cause him the biggest headaches, apart from the hangovers that is.