As that summary might suggest, Simon Temprell's debut novel is a glittering fluffball, stuffed with familiar and improbable glitterati stereotypes--most memorably the Cravens' incipiently senile mother, "a Carnaby Street relic, an old woman in a time warp that never even belonged to her in the first place". Simon Temprell was born in Chesterfield, England in He worked as a window-dresser at Harrods in London and then went on to start his own interior design business before moving to Belgium in Newly revised e-book versions of all four novels are due to be released in with two new novels in the works.
Customer Reviews, including Product Star Ratings, help customers to learn more about the product and decide whether it is the right product for them. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Black social comedy at its most bitingly perceptive. The dark, wicked. Felicity herself is the creator of Craven's Hotel - an exclusive boutique style haunt of the rich and famous - but the hotel actually belongs to her brother Sebastian, an idle playboy whom she despises.
When he is exposed in a rent-boy scandal, she sets out to destroy him. Meanwhile Claire, the dead tycoon's secretary, deiscovers she is pregnant with his child after a moment of inebraited folly - but she is also diagnosed with leukaemia. These are only three of a marvellous cast of memorable characters in a wickedly enthralling social comedy where fortaune doesn't necessarily smile on the most grasping and devious. Report an issue with this product. Previous slide of product details.
Print length. Publication date. See all details. Next slide of product details. Amazon Review When oil tycoon David Samuel Glendale gets blown up, new widow and sixties icon Felicity Craven expects to assuage her grief with his sizeable fortune. But the said fortune is bequeathed to a mistress in Texas-which means Fliss will be reduced to "shopping at John Lewis and getting her cash from a hole in the wall". To add insult to injury, her "confirmed bachelor" brother Sebastian gets embroiled in a rent-boy scandal; and utterly nondescript secretary Claire Brown finds that she is carrying Glendale's baby, after losing her virginity to him at an office party, and from then on in it's larky chaos all the way.
If self-deprecation and high comedy were taken seriously as art forms, this would be a Booker winner. About the author Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. Simon Temprell. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content.
