A great storyteller, although he was much more than a storyteller' Keith Waterhouse
Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son, Steve, goes insane. As if that weren't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women- neurotic, half- baked, critical or just plain capricious. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whether insanity is not something with which all women are intimately acquainted.
'He was a genuine comic writer, probably the best after P. G. Wodehouse... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist.' John Mortimer
'A great storyteller, although he was much more than a storyteller' Keith Waterhouse
