Quite Honestly - Softcover

Mortimer, John

3.09

521 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143038648 ISBN 13: 9780143038641

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2007

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From the creator of the Rumpole stories—a novel of middle-class do-gooding gone awry

Fans of John Mortimer and his popular Rumpole mysteries will love Quite Honestly, a comedy filled with a delightful cast of characters and Mortimer’s unique and entertaining take on a life of crime. Life couldn’t be better for Lucinda Purefoy—college educated, with a steady boyfriend and a job offer in advertising. With all this good fortune, isn’t it appropriate for her to give something back to society? Armed with only good intentions, she joins Social Carers, Reformers and Praeceptors (SCRAP, for short), a misguided organization that recruits women to becomes guides, philosophers, and friends to ex-convicts coming out of prison. Once she meets her charge, Terry Keegan, the ensuing hilarity and mishaps produce a signature Mortimer tale, full of wit and surprise.

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About the Author:

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

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This delicious confection from John Mortimer, creator of the bestselling Rumpole of the Bailey series, is delightfully narrated by Suzy Aitchison and Toby Longworth. In alternating chapters, the two explain what happens when Lucinda, an upper-class bishop's daughter, becomes a volunteer counselor to Terry, a recently released ex-convict. Terry's a professional thief; Lucinda, a well-meaning do-gooder--the result is charming and comical. Aitchison and Longworth's pacing is welcoming; their phrasing, clear. And they each create memorable audio portraits of their own and other characters. More remarkable, they make the portraits consistent between chapters so that Longworth's version of Lucinda's mannerisms resembles Aitchison's portrayal, and vice versa. This is a happy listening experience. A.C.S. � AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine-- Copyright � AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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