Publisher's Synopsis
Like his father before him, young Robert Purcell would eventually enjoy a distinguished career as a barrister and judge. Indeed, everything went to plan...until his life fell apart. He committed a crime - and went to prison... Robert's account of what drove him to his crime finds him struggling to come to terms with the forces that brought him down: his wife Elizabeth: the ex-girlfriend, Judy Page, who returned to haunt him; Pilkington, the bully; Mike Bell, the friend Robert was always happy to patronise. And his father who proved not to be the man he thought he was. Despite everything, Robert remains heroically determined to continue being the same magnificently pompous man, utterly resistant to therapy, change and the emotional demands of the opposite sex.
