Lost in the idyllic wilderness of rural England is the ancient Shchups Hall - a castle where women have been in charge for centuries. Their family goes back to the Danish Viking, who was taken into circulation by the first of the Shchups. Since then, it has been like this: Shchups take men captive, use them on the farm and do not allow them to do anything stupid. But even in the most conservative families, changes happen. Trouble (or love?) comes to Shchups Hall in the person of Esmond Ushli, a tremulous young man with a warped biography. His life was extremely difficult: the romance of his violet mother, the hatred of his father-clerk and the eccentricity of his criminal uncle would deprive anyone of their sanity. Or they will throw you straight into the arms of the last of the Shchups. “The Saga of the Shchups” is the thirteenth novel by the master of truly English humor, the virtuoso of irreverent literary slapstick Tom Sharpe. In the best traditions of the classics, the new book is also populated by idiot police officers, rednecks, classic bitches, universal idiots, and domineering old women. Hysterical laughter is guaranteed.