Quite Honestly

Mortimer, John; John Mortimer

ISBN 10: 0143038648 / ISBN 13: 9780143038641

Published by Penguin Books/ Published by the Penguin Group, New York, Toronto et al., 2007

About this Item

207 pp. Flawless, fresh, sharp, tight copy with crisp pages and clean text.

Seller Inventory # 4iEh0022

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quite Honestly
• Publisher: Penguin Books/ Published by the Penguin Group, New York, Toronto et al.
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143038648
• ISBN 13: 9780143038641
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Jesse Marinoff Reyes (Cover Design); Daniel Adel (Cover Art)
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Humor, Comedy, Wit, Satire
  • Fiction-Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction & Novel
  • Fiction-Comedic & Humorous Fiction & Literature

About this title

Synopsis

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.

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.