Cette saga grandiose retrace la fortune d'une famille ambitieuse sur plusieurs décennies, dans un contexte de changements sociaux et politiques tumultueux. Elle explore le choc entre l'idéalisme et le pragmatisme, les clivages de classe et les désirs personnels. Les récits plongent dans des relations complexes, des dilemmes moraux et la quête de pouvoir et de statut au sein d'une Angleterre en évolution dynamique.
Why does Simeon Simcox, the CND-marching Rector of Rapstone Fanner, leave his fortune not to his two sons but to an odious Tory Minister? Mortimer's novel unveils the follies and passions of an astonishing array of characters and English life.
Leslie Titmuss is the anti-hero of "Paradise Postponed", portrayed on screen by David Threlfall. In this novel, John Mortimer continues the rise of the complaisant Titmuss, now married to a second unpleasant wife. The author has also written the "Rumpole" series of books.
The acclaimed creator of Rumpole of the Bailey gives us a hugely entertaining chronicle of English life since World War II in these two novels published together for the first time. Both dramatized on the popular PBS Masterpiece Theater series, these stories present a brilliant commentary on the England of yesterday and today.