Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm - for transcendental meditation, yoga or the trampoline. But if Wilt can do nothing about his job, he realises he can do something about his wife - and as each day passes, his fantasies grow more murderous and more real.
The hilarious first Henry Wilt novel from Tom Sharpe, the British master of farce and bestselling author of Porterhouse Blue.
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Meet Henry Wilt.
Professionally overlooked. Demoralised at home. Passed over for promotion yet again.
At work, he faces yet more years of trying to force literature into the heads of students who'd rather be anywhere else. At home, his irrepressible wife Eva throws herself into one obsession after another, while Wilt's patience wears thinner by the day.
But if he can do nothing about his job, perhaps he can do something about his wife.
As each day passes, his fantasies grow more murderous and more real . . .
Tom Sharpe's wildly funny classic is a brilliantly outrageous tale of frustration, farce and misunderstanding, and one of the greatest comic novels of the twentieth century.
