It is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still findfamilies living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and onland that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. TheGropes of Grope Hall are one such family....A TOP TEN BESTSELLING AUTHOR -- both editions of Wilt in Nowhere wentstraight into the top ten and have sold over 300,000 copies in hardback andpaperback editions.Tom Sharpe has a huge fan-base and has created some of the mostmemorable characters in English fiction.