Paradise Postponed
by:
John Mortimer (author)
ISBN:
9780140089684 (0140089683)
Edition language: English
Series: Rapstone Chronicles omnibus (#1)
It serves me right really as I thought that I'd really enjoy this novel by John Mortimer as the Rumpole stories were quite fun. It is however a product of its times, written in the 1980s, when novels about the foibles of the middle classes were popular and abundant. It is dated and rarely amusing as...
Nothing special, quick beach read when you don't want to think about anything. Writing is fluent and the story-line keeps you interested but nothing special about this book.
When someone tells me they like reading novels, this is exactly the sort of book I imagine them reading, sitting in a comfy, worn-out armchair, possibly by the fire. A great meaty novel.‘Paradise Postponed’ is a satire, but not a satire the way some authors understand it, i.e. you have to be funny i...
When someone tells me they like reading novels, this is exactly the sort of book I imagine them reading, sitting in a comfy, worn-out armchair, possibly by the fire. A great meaty novel.‘Paradise Postponed’ is a satire, but not a satire the way some authors understand it, i.e. you have to be funny i...
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