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Bradley Pearson, a 58-year-old tax inspector, is the author of three unsuccessful books. In order to be able to devote himself fully to writing his fourth, he leaves his job and rents a cottage on the coast where he hopes to compose his materpiece. Yet instead of the quiet seclusion he envisioned for his retirement, he finds himself besieged by demands made on him by family and friends:
Bradley's unbearable ex-wife Christian is back from America with a view to rekindle their relationship. His distraught sister Priscilla seeks refuge in his home following the breakdown of her marriage. And his friend Arnold Baffin, a younger and decidedely more successful writer, solicits his help with marital troubles. To add to his plight, Arnold's daughter Julian pesters him to tutor her on Hamlet, the black prince. This chore at least soon turns out to be a source of happniness, as Bradley falls in love with his 20-year-old student and she returns his feelings. Yet their bliss is short-lived and precipitates a chain of calamitous events that will lead to Bradley standing accused of a crime he did not commit.
Chatto & Windus 1973 (Vintage, 2006)
Translated into: Macedonian
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