A humourous novel in which a further series of mishaps await Henry Wilt at Fenland Technical College. Things soon get out of hand when he is suspected of drug dealing and his wife decides to perk up his home brew with herbal stimulants. From the author of GRANTCHESTER GRIND and WILT.
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"Perfect stuff, vintage Sharpe." --Punch
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Wilt is back--in form and in trouble. He is still teaching English, dozing through tedious committee meetings and occasionally getting mildly plastered in The Pig in A Poke with one of his few bearable colleagues. But the calm is rudely interrupted when the shadow of drug dealing flickers across the Tech and Wilt becomes the target of suspicion.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
further adventures of poor Wilt; not amongst the best,
By lazza (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Wilt on High (Hardcover)
'Wilt on High' is another installment of our hapless suburban lecturer Henry Wilt who somehow gets into a total mess with his befuddled wife, demonic quadruplet daughters, the neighbours, the police, and the militia. The story is typical Sharpe craziness; it really isn't worth trying to explain it all. However 'Wilt on High' strikes me as one of Sharpe's weaker efforts, which is especially disappointing since the book starts off rather nicely.It is advisable to read 'Wilt' before 'Wilt on High' since it is more or less a sequel. Besides 'Wilt' is a much better read - a classic.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Wilt on High (Paperback)
Alas, too few of Sharpe's novels are available in an audio version. This one is, in full-length, and is capable of sending you off the road many times, if listening, as I did, on a long car trip. I have all of Sharpe's novels, and have concluded that he is an acquired taste. Too bad the BBC TV hasn't seen fit to do more of them.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not Sharpe's best, but very good,
By Reader "a_reader_999" (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Wilt On High (Paperback)
It might be (and has been) said, with some justice, that this novel is one of Sharpe's crueler and more mean-spirited efforts. Well, at least Wilt is not plotting to murder his wife in this one! I'll grant that there's a hard, bitter edge to the book (especially in the treatment of the Satanic quadruplets), but nevertheless I thought it was very funny, and Sharpe's sense for the absurd is on target as usual. I burst out laughing at least half a dozen times while reading it. It's a rare book that can get any outburst from me other than, "What a pile of *!%@", so clearly I enjoyed it. I haven't read any of the other Wilt novels, and now I plan to get them all.
I've read "Porterhouse Blue", "Riotous Assembly", and "Blott on the Landscape" by Sharpe, and I give them all the thumbs up. If you like wickedly black satire that isn't afraid to plunge into the gutter in its efforts to mock our gutter society, then you'll like this book.
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