It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. A Tale of Two Cities, Dickenss only historical novel, sets personal happiness against the terrors of the French Revolution where the search for social justice sacrifices individual rights. Dr Manette has emerged from eighteen years unjust imprisonment in the Bastille: by an ironic twist of fate, his daughter Lucies marriage draws the family into a terrifying web of circumstance which, it seems, can only end in death...
This is the hilarious sequel to the bestselling "Grumpy Old Men", with a specially-written foreword by Arthur Smith. To everything, there is a season - a time to be born, a time to die...and a time to have a bloody good moan.
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