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Titmuss Regained is a novel by John Mortimer published in 1990. It is a sequel to his 1986 novel Paradise Postponed.
Titmuss Regained: With David Threlfall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Rosemary Leach, Peter Capaldi. Adaptation of the second part of John Mortimer's Rapstone Chronicles, where a new town development threatens the Rapstone Valley.
Follow the families' interwoven histories from the years after WWII to the height of the Thatcher era. Nominated for four BAFTAs, Paradise Postponed and its sequel, Titmuss Regained, also star Kristen Scott Thomas (The English Patient), Annette Crosbie (Edward the King), and Zoe Wanamaker (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone).
When Titmuss wasn’t kicking down doors and haranguing his ambitious junior minister, Ken Cracken – played with his usual maverick air by Peter Capaldi – he was wining and dining his mistress in transport cafes, providing some of the funniest scenes with dialogue that was pure black comedy.
In John Mortimer's new novel, ''Titmuss Regained,'' he proves that while human nature remains the same, my, how the village has changed. Forget quaint. Forget ordered and predictable.
Titmuss addresses the threat posed by his ambitious and scheming junior minister, but he's preoccupied by the man competing for his wife's affections. Titmuss goes to extraordinary lengths to discover all he can about his rival.
With David Threlfall, Kristin Scott Thomas, Bill Oddie, Liz Crowther. Titmuss acquires a stately home in the beautiful, unspoiled Rapstone Valley--and intends for Jenny Sidonia to help him fill it. Both are widowed and unattached, but otherwise appear incompatible.
