Wilt in Nowhere by Tom Sharpe

A peaceful escape becomes a spectacular comic disaster

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Henry Wilt has no desire to accompany his wife Eva and their quadruplets on a visit to wealthy relatives in Atlanta. A solitary walking holiday in the English countryside seems a better route to peace, particularly with a bottle of whisky for company. Predictably, his attempt to escape ordinary troubles produces an entirely different set of calamities. Across the Atlantic, Eva's hopes of a future inheritance collide with the behaviour of the children and a drug-trafficking investigation. Tom Sharpe sends both halves of the family into increasingly outrageous situations, combining misunderstandings, ill-judged decisions and black humour in another episode of Wilt's determination to find quiet in a world that will not allow it.