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Ancestral Vices

By: Tom Sharpe
Narrated by: Griff Rhys Jones
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When Lord Petrefact hires Walden Yapp, Professor of Demotic Historiography at Kloone University, to write a scurrilous family history Yapp finds plenty of material in Buscott village, where Frederick Petrefact is running the Mill and adding new vices to the family collection. If Yapp can lay his hands on the Petrefact Papers in the Buscott Museum he may be able to expose the multi-national capitalism of the Petrefacts to the whole world. Unfortunately when he takes lodgings with the Coppetts of Rabbitry Road and encounters the peculiar charm of Rosie, a woman of large body and little mind, he sets in motion a train of events which are to lead to his undoing.

©1980 Tom Sharpe (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction
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I am a huge fan of Tom Sharpe and to me this is his absolute best. It is true that the story has a quick ending (maybe Tom ran out of time) but none of his books gives complete closure. Also Griff Rhys Jones is just fantastic.

be aware: You will not be able to stop laughing

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Enjoyable but not amazing. personally I found it very diffcult to follow and the narration over the top. I found his other books much better.

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