{"product_id":"quite-honestly","title":"Quite Honestly","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuite Honestly\u003c\/i\u003e - a hilarious crime novel by bestselling Rumpole author John Mortimer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLife couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. She's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences and the offer of a job in advertising. With all this, she felt she should 'pay back her debt to society' and 'do a little good in the world'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat's why she joined SCRAP (short for 'Social Carers, Reformers and Preceptors'), an organization which trains girls like Lucy to become the 'guide, philosopher and friend' to ex-convicts coming out of prison, to find them a job, a home and to encourage them to kick the habit of stealing things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd so Lucy finds herself standing outside the gates of Wormwood Scrubs, on a windy March morning, waiting to greet her first SCRAP 'client', a career-burglar called Terry Keegan. What happens next confounds expectations and produces a story full of surprises. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a cast of characters that rivals anything in his famous Rumpole stories and a compulsive plot, \u003ci\u003eQuite Honestly\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderfully comic novel. If you like to read P.D. James and P.G. Wodehouse, you will love this book.\u003cbr\u003e Sir John Mortimer was a barrister, playwright and novelist. His fictional political trilogy of \u003ci\u003eParadise Postponed, Titmuss Regained\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Trumpets\u003c\/i\u003e has recently been republished in Penguin Classics, together with \u003ci\u003eClinging to the Wreckage\u003c\/i\u003e and his play \u003ci\u003eA Voyage round My Father\u003c\/i\u003e. His most famous creation was the barrister Horace Rumpole, who featured in four novels and around eighty short stories. His books in Penguin include: \u003ci\u003eThe Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole; The Collected Stories of Rumpole; The First Rumpole Omnibus; Rumpole and the Angel of Death; Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders; Rumpole and the Primrose Path; Rumpole and the Reign of Terror; Rumpole and the Younger Generation; Rumpole at Christmas; Rumpole Rests His Case; The Second Rumpole Omnibus; Forever Rumpole; In Other Words; Quite Honestly \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSummer's Lease\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54251379032408,"sku":"9780141020907","price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141020907_13244996-7a74-4c24-855e-a5e82c5b4aae.jpg?v=1767065419","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/quite-honestly","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}