The Birthday Present

Author(s): Barbara Vine

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It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply compensated for by the well-bred and intensely attractive Tesham - an ardent womanizer and ambitious politican. On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember: something far more memorable than, say, the costly string of pearls he's already lavished upon her.Involving a fashionable new practice known as 'adventure sex', a man arranges for his unsuspecting but otherwise willing girlfriend to be snatched from the street, bound and gagged, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue ...Set amidst an age of IRA bombings, the first Gulf War, and sleazy politics, "The Birthday Present" is the gripping story of a fall from grace, and of a man who carries within him all the hypocrisy, greed and self-obsession of a troubled era.


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The Rendell/Vine partnership has for years been producing consistently better work than most Booker winners put together Ian Rankin Barbara Vine is Ruth Rendell letting rip Daily Telegraph A superb and original writer Amanda Craig, Express

General Fields

  • : 9780141036212
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 31 March 2009
  • : books

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  • : Barbara Vine
  • : 288