Quite Honestly

Mortimer, John

ISBN 10: 0141806648 ISBN 13: 9780141806648

Publisher: Penguin, 2005

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date: 2005 Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks; Unaidged Life could not be better for Lucinda Purefoy. Granted it's a little Embarrassing Her father being the Bishop of Aldershot but she's got a steady boyfriend a degree in social sciences from Manchester University and the offer of a job in advertising. With all that. she felt she should pay back her debt to society 'and do a little good in the world'. That's why she joined SCRAP (short for Social Carers. Reformers and Praeceptors '). an organization which trains girls like Lucy to become the guide. philosopher and friend' to ex-convicts coming out of prison. to find them a job. a home and to encourage them to kick the habit of stealing things. And so Lucy finds herself standing outside the gates of Wormwood Scrubs. on a windy March morning. waiting to greet her first SCRAP client '. a career-burglar called Terry K...

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Kick back and put yourself in the hands of a master. ("Detroit Free Press")

No one is better than Mortimer at cataloging the thousand fusty eccentricities of English domestic and public life. . . . There is not a page that doesn?t crackle with wit. ("Newsday")

Mortimer is the master of a crisp, witty, eminently readable prose style. (Los Angeles Times)
Kick back and put yourself in the hands of a master. (Detroit Free Press)
No one is better than Mortimer at cataloging the thousand fusty eccentricities of English domestic and public life. . . . There is not a page that doesn't crackle with wit. (Newsday)"

Synopsis

Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. Granted it's a little embarrassing, her father being the Bishop of Aldershot, but she's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences from Manchester University and the offer of a job in advertising. With all that, she felt she should pay back her debt to society' and do a little good in the world'. That's why she joined SCRAP (short for Social Carers, Reformers and Praeceptors'), an organization which trains girls like Lucy to become the guide, philosopher and friend' to ex-convicts coming out of prison, to find them a job, a home and to encourage them to kick the habit of stealing things. And so Lucy finds herself standing outside the gates of Wormwood Scrubs, on a windy March morning, waiting to greet her first SCRAP client', a career-burglar called Terry Keegan. What happens next confounds expectations and produces a story full of surprises. With a cast of characters that rivals anything in his famous Rumpole stories and a compulsive plot, "Quite Honestly" is a wonderfully comic novel, packed with John Mortimer's entertaining reflections on crime.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0141806648
• ISBN 13: 9780141806648
• Binding: Audio CD