When his mother dies, Francis is shocked to discover that she had a lover and that he must share his inheritance with this (awful) man. Then Francis falls in love—painfully, absolutely—with an irresistible but most unsuitable young woman.
A. N. Wilson traces Francis's descent through various circles of the English establishment, a tragi-comic journey that takes the hapless hero to the outer edges of both absurdity and despair.
- ISBN10 0393312941
- ISBN13 9780393312942
- Publish Date 28 September 2012 (first published 13 September 1993)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 September 2005
- Publish Country US
- Imprint WW Norton & Co
- Format Paperback
- Pages 400
- Language English