Of the two pupil barristers in the prestigious chambers at 5 Caper Court, only one can win the coveted place of junior tenant at the end of the year. Penniless Anthony Cross is brilliant, but up against Edward Choke – wealthy, good-natured, not very bright, and also the head of chambers’ nephew. Anthony has to cope with further complications – his ageing-hippy father, who likes to embarrass him in front of curmudgeonly clerk Mr Slee, and with the startling possibility that he may be gay … A delectable blend of sex, law and office politics, The Pupil also mercilessly strips the British class system to the funny bone.
( from the sleeve, 245 pages )