The Throwback

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The Throwback is a novel written by Tom Sharpe.

[edit] Plot

The plot is based on the fictitious Flawse family, ancient landed gentry of Northumberland, just south of the Scottish Border. They have their own breed of hunting dog called the Flawse Hound. Lockhart Flawse is the illegitimate grandchild of a robust old man called Edwin Tyndale Flawse born in the century before last whose main aim in the very autumn years of his life is to find the father of his bastard grandchild and flog him within an inch of his life.