Paradise postponed Book

I've never read any Rumpole books but if they are anything like as good as this first book in the Rapstone trilogy then I should.
This is a book that jumps back and forth in time frequently but it's never confusing. There's a huge cast of characters but you never lose track of who is who or who said or did anything in particular.
Mortimer keeps total control over everything and leads us through the lives of the characters from shortly after WWII up until the middle of the eighties.
The story concerns a socialist rector in a small town not very far from London who at the outset dies only for it to be discovered he has left the shares for the family brewery to an odious Conservative Minister Leslie Titmuss. The rectors youngest son Fred sets out to discover the reason while his older brother, celebrated author Henry decides to go to court to prove their fathers insanity. During the course of the investigations, such as they are, we travel back and forward through time learning about their lives and the changing state on the nation. It's excellent stuff and easily stands up to a second reading. Highly recommended.