The Walpole Orange

Frank Muir

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English

Corgi Books
01 December 1994

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

William Grundwick has a problem. As secretary of the Walpole Club he's duty-bound to arrange whatever function the Events Committee decides is appropriate to celebrate the Club's 250th birthday. It's just that what they have decided upon seems to William almost wholly inappropriate; worse still he's not sure he knows precisely what form such a function should take. And if that isn't bad enough, the whole business is supposed to be a deep secret, so he can't even discuss it with his lovely young wife Milly. Milly has her own problems. Is she going off William? His secretiveness is certainly disturbing. And now the Baroque Trio she runs has lost its viola and continuo player - Catriona has decamped to Los Angeles with a session guitarist called Trev.

Torn between the demands of the Events Committee, Milly, and an accountant in a diaphanous sari, spied on by a treacherous underporter with a hotline to the tabloids and pressurized by the chairperson of the Golden Horn Ladies Belly-Dancing Ensemble, Catford, the harrassed William has some appallingly difficult decisions to make.

The Walpole Orange, astonishingly, is Frank Muir's first novel. As one might expect from Britain's leading humorist, it is highly imaginative, wickedly witty and utterly irresistible.

By: Frank Muir
Imprint: Corgi Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 106mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 174g
ISBN: 9780552141369
ISBN 10: 0552141364
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 December 1994
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Frank Muir lived in Surrey with his wife Polly for many years. He died in 1998.

Reviews for The Walpole Orange

"""Captivating ... Muir has a wonderful ear for dialogue, and a wonderful eye for the comic situation."" Daily Express ""Fans will recognise his exuberant wit in this light-hearted romp with a P.G. Wodehouse flavour."" Good Book Guide"

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