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.
When Lockhart Flawse is catapulted out of his upper-class and rapunzel-esque life with the curmudgeonly Flawse Senior, he must enter the world of suburbia, and marriage. Rendered an absolute twit in modern society by his medieval upbringing, Lockhart must resort to drastic tactics in his attempt to return to Flawse House. Faced with the horrors of suburbia, he must either terrorise, blackmail and potentially kill an entire street of his tenants, or attempt to find his unknown and elusive father in order to inherit the estate.However, with the belief that he was dropped into his mother's arms by a stork, killing a street of people may be the wiser option for the socially inept young man. He is also under mounting pressure, as it may all be in vain if his gold-digging mother-in-law has her way. Now the wife of Flawse Senior, she has decided that if Lockhart's wealthy grandfather can't have the decency to die on his own, she will take matters into her own hands.
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.