In this, the second of Tom Sharpe's chronicles about Henry Wilt, our hero is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts & Technology and the fantasies he now confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats- in addition to his wife's enthusiasm for every Organic Alternative under the compost heap and the insistence of his quadruplets on looking at every problem with an unflinching lack of sentimentality.
Thomas Ridley Sharpe (London, 30 March 1928 – Llafranch, Gerona, 6 June 2013) was an English satirical novelist, best known for his *Wilt* series, as well as *Porterhouse Blue* and *Blott on the Landscape,* all three of which were adapted for television.
