Book description
Summer's Lease - the classic, international bestselling novel
by John Mortimer
'Amusing, entertaining ... and a cracking good read' Sunday Express
'And summer's lease hath all too short a date' - Sonnet 18,
William Shakespeare
It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering
family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that
the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but
soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent owners - and
things start to go horribly wrong ...
'With a cosy fluency of wit, Mortimer charms us into his urbane
tangle of clues' Mail on Sunday
Summer's Lease, which was made into popular BBC TV
mini-series starring John Gielgud, is a delightful novel from Rumpole
author John Mortimer: witty, compassionate, humane, perfectly plotted
and wonderfully readable. It will be adored by readers of P. G
Wodehouse and P. D. James.
Sir John Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist. His
fictional political trilogy of Paradise Postponed, Titmuss
Regained and The Sound of Trumpets has recently been
republished in Penguin Classics, together with Clinging to the
Wreckage and his play A Voyage round My Father. His most
famous creation was the barrister Horace Rumpole, who featured in four
novels and around eighty short stories. His books in Penguin include:
The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole; The Collected
Stories of Rumpole; The First Rumpole Omnibus; Rumpole and the Angel
of Death; Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders; Rumpole and the
Primrose Path; Rumpole and the Reign of Terror; Rumpole and the
Younger Generation; Rumpole at Christmas; Rumpole Rests His Case;
The Second Rumpole Omnibus; Forever Rumpole; In Other Words; Quite
Honestly and Summer's Lease.
John Mortimer is a novelist, playwright and former practising
barrister. Among his many publications are several volumes of Rumpole
stories and a trilogy of political novels (
Paradise Postponed
,
Titmuss Regained
and
The Sound of Trumpets
) featuring aspiring Conservative MP, Leslie Titmuss. Sir John received
a knighthood in 1998 for his services to the arts.
