Clever and intriguing, this novel from an award-winning author explores the arid morality of the privileged. /b> uring the long summer holiday, the Lampton and Hallwright families gather in a large beach house belonging to Prime Minister David Hallwright and his wife Roza. The weather is perfect and outwardly all is well, but the harmony is disturbed when Simon Lampton s brother Ford arrives for a visit. Ford casts a cold eye over the company, barely disguising his contempt for David Hallwright. To add to imon s discomfort ...
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Clever and intriguing, this novel from an award-winning author explores the arid morality of the privileged. /b> uring the long summer holiday, the Lampton and Hallwright families gather in a large beach house belonging to Prime Minister David Hallwright and his wife Roza. The weather is perfect and outwardly all is well, but the harmony is disturbed when Simon Lampton s brother Ford arrives for a visit. Ford casts a cold eye over the company, barely disguising his contempt for David Hallwright. To add to imon s discomfort a young man called Arthur Weeks makes contact, asking about Simon s secret ast love affair, while Roza tells her small son Johnnie a continuous story about a group of fantasy creatures a story that contains uncomfortable parallels with their current lives. When Simon agrees to meet secretly with Arthur Weeks, the result will threaten the security of them all. Charlotte Grimshaw s exhilaratingly gripping and clever narrative traces the lives of its beautiful people moral imbeciles in Ford s words as they jostle for position in their leader s court. This humane and capacious novel, generous and faithful to its characters in ways that they are not t
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