Description
The hero of John Wain’s classic novel is Charles Lumley, a young man fresh out of university and wondering what to do with the rest of his life. Feeling as though he has been born in captivity — the captivity of his bourgeois upbringing — Charles decides to escape by setting off on a picaresque and hilarious tour of 1950s England. He undergoes a string of comic misadventures as he works various jobs — from window cleaner to nightclub bouncer to drug trafficker — all the while trying to find his place in the world and win the love of the beautiful Veronica Roderick
