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The Transmogrification Of Toby Pickles

The Transmogrification Of Toby Pickles


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Sexual intercourse began in Britain in 1963: "Between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP". Now it's 1966 and Mick and his pal Toby Pickles are treading the boards in a Yorkshire seaside town as members of the Skipborough Players. Mick is that miserable nonentity, an assistant stage manager: just turned 21 he has a kind heart but a big mouth. Homosexuality is still illegal, and Toby Pickles is the Skipborough Players resident widow Twankey.Then Toby drunkenly accosts a passerby, gets a good thumping, suffers traumatic head injury and his personal 1966 rolls backwards in time. Suddenly the Widow Twankey wants everyone to know that Deutsch is still alive. Deutsch who? Dr. Arnold Deutsch: sexologist - the man who recruited the Cambridge Five spies. But wasn't he killed during the war?Toby recovers, but is no longer just an entertaining old thespian. He is the Mahatma Skipborough: faith healer to the fashionable and famous. Meanwhile Mick's 1966 rolls forward and his innocence rolls back: everyone it seems has a dodgy past. And the dodgy past meets the dodgy present when the Mahatma introduces Mick to Ronnie and Reggie Kray, and the Hollywood gangster turned London casino boss, George Raft. Maybe the only genuine person Mick knows is his new West Indian girlfriend, Angie: nurse and single mum. Even poor Doctor Silverman, holocaust victim and physician at the Donne Tyme Home for retired criminals - where the Skipborough Players give a rousing performance of their "Snatches from the Bard" - is linked to Toby's past through their wartime work at the Bletchley spy centre. And there's something very iffy about Matron, too. Not only does she run the Home with an iron fist, but she also wears an electrified, full metal corset to discourage bottom pinching among the inmates.Disaster strikes. The police invade the Home, find bodies in the garden, and discover that one of the Donne Tyme inmates is President of the Skipborough Society of Spankophiles. Not only do they enjoy spanking, but they believes Jesus is a spaceman and will return on New Year's Eve, 1966, to establish the new Jerusalem in Skipborough.But who is burying bodies in the garden? Is Deutsch really dead? And what's so special about the man from Special Branch? Then on New Year's Eve - in the presence of the Chief Constable and other notables - the Skipborough Players give the performance of their lives in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Toby is Sir Toby Belch and Mick is Feste the clown. And as the play reaches its climax, "with hey, ho, the wind and the rain", the weather turns foul, the lights fail, Jesus drops in and Matron does a runner. Now read on.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781072259404
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 368
  • Spine Width: 21 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1072259400
  • Publisher Date: 05 Jun 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 540 gr


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