by John Mortimer · Viking Adult · tapa dura · ISBN 9780670800940
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«Paradise Postponed» is the literary fiction novel by John Mortimer, published by Viking Adult in hardback (352 pages, in English).
The novel follows Leslie Titmuss, an ambitious conservative politician, and the inhabitants of the village of Rapstone Fanner from the Second World War to the 1980s. When the rector Simeon Simcox leaves his entire fortune to Titmuss, local intrigues portray British society with irony.
First instalment of the Rapstone Chronicles, adapted by its author into an eleven-episode series for Masterpiece Theatre.
Readers of social comedy and British political satire, and those familiar with John Mortimer's television series for Masterpiece Theatre.
Sir John Clifford Mortimer was a British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author. He is best known for short stories about a barrister named Horace Rumpole, adapted from episodes of the TV series Rumpole of the Bailey also written by Mortimer.
