If you're a true Monty Python lover, then you will howl with laughter at this raucous book!

Paperback: 222 pages
Publisher: Pan Books (1980)

The plot is based around the ancient Flawse family, landed gentry based at the falling-down Flawse Hall, (near "Flawse Fell") in the wilds of Northumberland, just south of the Anglo-Scottish border. The single remaining family member is a cantankerous octenegarian named Edwin Tyndale Flawse. His illegitimate grandson Lockhart (aka "the Bastard") combines sexual and educational innocence with an alarming propensity for violence when he or his wife is threatened. The old man was born in the late 19th century, and his main aim in the very autumn years of his life is to find the father of his bastard grandchild and flog him within an inch of his life.

Either you adore Tom Sharpe or you hate him. For one who adores his kind of black and bizarre humor, this is a winner. And the writer is beautifully articulate, and certainly knows how to turn a phrase.

I had found this book in the room of a beautiful summer house in Kefallonia island, left by some previous traveler.

Now I let it free to travel to the U.K. to Deltic, who is my pair in the EASTER EXCHANGE GAME 2017 that has been organized by Simson-Shilitoe.

Dear Deltic, I wish you will enjoy reading it!

Thank you so much for this book and the lovely things that came with it. You put a great big smile on my face!

Total madness and typical Tom Sharpe. Thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm now off to read something more sensible.

Thanks again for sending me this From.

Taking to meet up in Leeds on Sunday.

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