Titmuss Regained - Softcover

Mortimer, John

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ISBN 10: 014014921X ISBN 13: 9780140149210

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1991

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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.

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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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British politician Leslie Titmuss finds himself at an impasse between personal interest and political beliefs when his home turf, Rapstone Valley, is proposed as the site of a huge development . This comedy of manners features several characters last seen in Paradise Postponed and represents ``Mortimer at his very best: moving, funny, literate and profound,'' according to PW .

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