{"product_id":"summers-lease","title":"Summer's Lease","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer's Lease\u003c\/i\u003e - the classic, international bestselling novel by John Mortimer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Amusing, entertaining ... and a cracking good read' \u003ci\u003eSunday Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'And summer's lease hath all too short a date' - \u003ci\u003eSonnet 18\u003c\/i\u003e, William Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent owners - and things start to go horribly wrong ... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'With a cosy fluency of wit, Mortimer charms us into his urbane tangle of clues' \u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer's Lease, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was made into popular BBC TV mini-series starring John Gielgud, is a delightful novel from Rumpole author John Mortimer: witty, compassionate, humane, perfectly plotted and wonderfully readable. It will be adored by readers of P.G Wodehouse and P.D. James.\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":54233833898328,"sku":"9780141034874","price":21.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141034874.jpg?v=1766211341","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/summers-lease","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}