JILLY COOPER'S outrageous new novel is a riotous story of life behind the television screen. It marks the return of Rupert Campbell-Black, the unscrupulous hero of RIDERS, and explores the machinations and pleasures of the very rich, from the agonies of obession to the passions and betrayal of men and women used to getting what they want.
Abigail Rosen is L'Apassionata, the sexiest, most passionately stylish violinist on the music scene. Both revered and lusted after, she is also lonely and exploited. A suicide attempt ruins her career, so she sets her sights elsewhere.
The head of an independent school for children of the weathly hatches a scheme to offer use of their facilities to the local comprehensive school for disadvantaged children, in order to reap government funding requiring community involvement. Mayhem results.
No picture ever came more beautiful than Raphael's Pandora. Discovered by a dashing young lieutenant in 1944, she had cast her spell over the Belvedon family for 50 years. Hanging in a turret of their lovely Cotswold house, Pandora witnessed Raymond's wife Galena both entertaining a string of lovers and giving birth to her four children. During a firework party, the painting was stolen, and the hunt to retrieve it takes the reader on a thrilling journey to Vienna, Geneva, Paris, New York, and London.