{"product_id":"summers-lease-1","title":"Summers 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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57448489779582,"sku":"NW9780141034874","price":12.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780141034874.jpg?v=1779371773","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/summers-lease-1","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}