Author(s): Leo Benedictus

Fiction

Why should you read this blurb? Yes, I will lie to you about this book if that’s what it takes to make a sale. Yes, for twelve pounds and ninety-nine pence, I’d describe your granny’s weekly shop as “a freewheeling romp, by turns scabrous and disturbing”. So why on earth should you believe me when I’m pitching you my masterpiece? Because this book is different. You’ve really never read a book like this before. It’s the story of an April night that never happened. It’s a night that changes everything for nerdy Michael, a journalistic worker ant, who agrees to take his boss’s invitation to an A-list party at a London club. Inside, birthday boy Hugo Marks is a reclusive movie star announcing his re-entrance to society. And the last thing Hugo needs is Mellody, his junkie supermodel wife, deciding now’s the time to swan-dive off the wagon. Or drop-dead-gorgeous pop star Calvin, hoping he can screw himself into their league. Yet not one of them sees the real crisis coming. The moment that will tangle their four lives into an intricate disaster. It happens at the afterparty. But then, perhaps you knew that already…