Title: The Untamed Shrews - Tom Sharpe - book
Summary :
From one of the masters of British humor, a wild, explosive, and hilarious new farce. The incredible adventures of a line of unsavory Amazons, peerless kidnappers, ready to do anything to perpetuate themselves...
In Northumberland, for generations, the Grope ladies have been spreading terror around them. Their distinctive features: an unattractive appearance, an unsympathetic nature, and castrating urges inversely proportional to their desire to reproduce. No problem! In the Grope household, men are kidnapped from mother to daughter. A family custom that young Esmond Burnes will pay the price for...
The only son of a romance novelist and a dull, ungainly banker, Esmond is forced to take refuge with his uncle after a drunken assault by his father. There, the innocent boy falls into the clutches of his aunt Belinda, née Grope, a frustrated wife and frenzied housewife...
Suspicious disappearances, aggravated drunkenness, fits of madness, torrid sex... Even the police are about to lose the plot. But will anyone be able to save Esmond Burnes?
