Philadelphia is a thoroughly modern girl with a determination to choose her own destiny but the matchmakers are everywhere. Her 80 year old Grandmother is busy conspiring with Kaleen, an upwardly mobile fashion designer, the two of them want Philadelphia to team up with Algernon, Kaleen's dysfunctional mathematical genius of a son. In the meantime Philadelphia's Grandfather is also matchmaking and wants her to marry Sir Reginald Houghton-Smythe a globetrotting millionaire with a plum in his mouth. However there is a spanner in the works in the form of Johnny Compost a punk rocker from London and self- proclaimed leader of The Great Unwashed. With such a cast of zany characters the only possible outcome is pandemonium, mayhem and madness.
My husband discovered Thorogood by chance. His laughter prompted me to read this as well. We are both well into our senior years and have always believed laughter is the best medicine. Thorogood is our new prescription.