The Gropes

✍ Scribed by Sharpe, Tom

• Book ID: 109426565
• Publisher: Hutchinson
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 84 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781446474693
• ASIN: B0051UTQV8

✦ Synopsis

It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family....

The Gropes are an old English family based in Northumberland, separated from the rest of society and as eccentric as they come. It is a line dominated by strong-willed and oversexed women, determined to produce more female heirs regardless of whether their desired partners are willing ...

At the dawn of the new millennium, timid and gormless teenager Esmond is abducted and lured to Grope Hall by a descendant of the Gropes. Young Esmond is powerless to escape, and his kidnap sets in motion a stream of farcical events that will have readers laughing out loud.

Tom Sharpe's trademark humour abounds in this new novel, marking him out once again as an outstanding and unique British storyteller.

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Review

“A major craftsman in the art of farce . . . vengeful, chaotic, Swiftian in his tastes, cartoonish in his extremes, and above all wild and amusing.”
— Observer

“Tom Sharpe serves up the loudest laughs in literary comedy.”
— Mail on Sunday

From the Trade Paperback edition.

About the Author

Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and is the author of thirteen bestselling novels including the much loved Wilt series.

From the Trade Paperback edition.