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After the death of the sitting Tory MP in extremely dubious circumstances, New Labour arrives in the Rapstone Valley in the shape of Terry Flitton and his very PC wife Kate. The seat is captured, but at the terrible price of collaboration with old Thatcherite Lord Titmuss, still a force in the area. And when Terry starts an affair with the distinctly unPC Agnes, things begin to crash around him ... Brilliant, sparkling political comedy, THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS completes the trilogy that beganwith the bestsellers PARADISE POSTPONED and TITMUSS REGAINED.
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In Paradise Postponed and Titmuss Regained John Mortimer took some fairly hefty swipes at the Thatcherite Conservative governments and the way the Labour Party had let them get away with it. The fact that Labour is the government at this writing appears to have changed nothing and the final part of this post-war political trilogy launches a pretty good swipe at them as well. New Labour--or "conservatism with water" as the trilogy's most enduring character, Leslie Titmuss, calls them--are seen, like the appearance of identical high streets in every town, as just another example of the blanding of Britain. So enter Titmuss--now retired from the Thatcher cabinet and called Lord Titmuss, First Baron Skurfield--to shake things up. He plays a wonderful Mephistopheles to a proto-Blairite parliamentary candidate's Faust as the electors in the tranquil Rapstone Valley again become a microcosm of British public life. Champagne socialists seem to come out of it all rather well, (as, it must be said, do reactionary old brutes like Titmuss) and the real venom is again reserved for the insipid political clones and power junkies. All in all vintage Mortimer. --Nick Wroe
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After the death of a Tory MP in dubious circumstances, New Labour arrives in the Rapstone Valley in the shape of Terry Flitton and his very PC wife, Kate. The seat is captured, but at the at the terrible price of collaboration with the old Thatcherite Lord Titmuss, still a force in the area.
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- ISBN 10 0140271279
- ISBN 13 9780140271270
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