Author: Valerie Grove
Bugs: 4
Review by: Kate Z Z
This 560 page biography of the creator of Rumpole has more information than you probably ever want to know about the other people in his life, but that does serve to portray upper middle British society in the 20th century in a frank, and rather unflattering, way. Mortimer himself, while a prodigious and talented writer, is revealed to be an incredibly self-centered rake who had countless (literally!) lovers and experienced no self-recrimination about the pain that caused his two long-suffering wives. Hard to admire him by the end of this bio.
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