Author:Tom Sharpe
Stuck in a job he doesn't want - but can't afford to lose - as nominal Head of the Communications Department at Fenland University, Wilt is still subject to the whims of The Powers That Be, both in and outside 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. When Eva signs him up for a summer job, teaching the gun-toting idiot son of a lusty local aristocrat, Wilt is not amused. But, as circumstances unravel and the summer goes on, Wilt sees that the situation could be put to his financial advantage, as well as giving Eva some headaches of her own.
With Tom Sharpe's famous dark humour in full evidence, and an explosive plot which takes its readers to places they never realised they wanted to visit, The Wilt Inheritance is another instant classic from the British master of farce.
A major craftsman in the art of farce...vengeful, chaotic, Swiftian in his tastes, cartoonish in his extremes, and above all wild and amusing
—— ObserverBritain's leading practitioner of black humour
—— PunchTom Sharpe serves up the loudest laughs in literary comedy. He is the great post-Waugh humorist, the Wodehouse who dares plunge into the bottomless vulgarity and hysteria of our times, and a rattling good companion on a train journey
—— Mail on SundayThe funniest novelist writing today
—— The TimesThe best of British farce-masters is back
—— Mail on SundayIt's always a pleasure to welcome a new novel by one of the world's funniest writers
—— The Sunday TimesTom Sharpe fans will be delighted with this hilarious treat
—— Good Book GuideRiotous
—— Press AssociationFiercely compassionate and frank... conveys a world so out of kilter and so like ours that its readers are likely to feel both exhilarated and unnerved by its accuracy.
—— Elle U.S.Provocative... we leave One True Thing stimulated and challenged, more thoughtful than when we began.
—— Los Angeles TimesImaginative and transporting, but entirely unfussy and unsentimental, the novel is written with a glint in the eye that gives it that extra bit of wind beneath its wings
—— Nicola Barr , Guardian
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