The Wilt Alternative

Henry Wilt, the anti-hero of Tom Sharpe's Wilt, is back with quadruplet daughters, a bigger house, and the same vexing wife, Eva. The wild plot includes genital mutilation and a terrorist siege. But there are also a few detours into more serious matters. As Sharpe puts it near the end of this comic novel, referring to Wilt but really to everyone, "No one ever understood him: no one ever would. He was a creature of infinite incomprehensibility and the world was filled with idiots, himself included."