{"product_id":"paradise-postponed-by-john-mortimer-1212j","title":"Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy does Simeon Simcox, the CND-marching Rector of Rapstone Fanner, leave his fortune not to his two sons but to an odious Tory Minister? This novel is a portrait of English life from 1945 to the present.  Editorial Reviews  From Library Journal Mortimer, known for his Rumpole series, here offers the life of Rector Simeon Simcos in the small English village of Rapstone Fanner. LJ's reviewer found Mortimer's writing witty and the wordplay entertaining but thought the plot a little flimsy (LJ 4\/1\/86). Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.  Review He juggles his plot adeptly back and forth in time, fast enough to be farcical yet slow enough to lend substance to his characters. Just at the point where many social satires of this sort begin to pall and grow static, he effortlessly shifts the plot's focus to the mystery of Mr. Simcox's will, thereby deepening the reader's involvement and sparing him the least moment of tedium. -- The New York Times Book Review, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt  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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41833589801034,"sku":"1212j","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/Book-Express-No-Image-Main_a5ac0e26-59c6-4735-a49b-b333ed3c5788.png?v=1764471443","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/paradise-postponed-by-john-mortimer-1212j","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}