Author : John Mortimer
Publisher: Penguin Books
"A worldly-wise, never world-weary, wonderfully entertaining, occasionally outrageous and always thought-provoking book" -that's what one reviewer said.
I could not agree more. I came to adore Mortimer from his Horace Rumpole writings and grew to love the protagonist and his antics, courtesy of BBC TV. The law could be ridiculous and funny at times and Rumpole exploited it to great hilarity!
In Where There's A Will, Mortimer pondered on inheritance he received: not just house and properties but other more precious stuffs – an approach to life and a view of our brief existence, and examined the kinds of things he would like to pass on in turn: the pleasures of drink, the justification for the odd lie, the belief in one’s ability to change one’s life, the absolute necessity of causing offence on occasion, and a vision of god as The Grand Perhaps.
Mortimer drew on his life as a barrister and writer – two occupations seemingly quite different yet both concerned with questions of truth and fiction, value and significance – and offered his readers and fans a comic account of what a decent life might be, based on the a number of key principles: from the importance of questioning the views of the majority to the desirability of wearing the clothes of one’s youth, even in old age.
I love Mortimer!
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