Author:Tom Sharpe
Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm - for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline.
But if Wilt can do nothing about his job, he realises he can do something about his wife - and as each day passes, his fantasies grow more murderous and more real.
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 StandardThis delightful book ... lives, rises and triumphs by a slicing wit
—— Daily MirrorSuperb farce ... If you don't laugh your head off, Crippen wasn't guilty
—— TribuneMr. Sharpe's farce has a gritty satirical edge to it, and the world his embattled central character inhabits is all too real
—— Sunday TimesTom Sharpe piles slapstick upon slapstick with the ingenious dexterity of a music-hall illusionist
—— Sunday TelegraphThe funniest detective story in years
—— Evening NewsAbominably funny
—— Yorkshire PostLiza Marklund is in a league of her own
—— HENNING MANKELLPlenty of politics, high and low and the portrayal of college life and vicious, teeming with sycophants and thick with double dealing
—— GuardianPears brings to life a vibrant 17th-century world...a tour de force
—— Daily TelegraphCrammed with period detail, it's as much a novel of ideas as it is of character
—— Val McDermid , The Week
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