Author:Charlotte Bingham
Fans of Louise Douglas, Dinah Jeffries and Kristin Hannah will love this heart-warming, captivating and compelling post-war saga by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham.
'As comforting as a hot milky drink on a stormy night. Her legions of fans will not be disappointed.' -- DAILY EXPRESS
'Outstanding' -- ***** Reader review
'Another excellent read by Charlotte Bingham' -- ***** Reader review
'These are characters you will really care about' -- ***** Reader review
'Very enjoyable and hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review
'Incredibly well written and engrossing' -- ***** Reader review
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WHAT CAN OFFER THE ESCAPE THEY SEEK?
The 1950s, post-War Britain: the only people in society who can be said to have a glamorous lifestyle are the very wealthy, the aristocracy, and people who worked in the theatre.
Elsie Lancaster is the granddaughter of a hardened old professional actress who runs a seaside boarding house.
Oliver is the third son of a Catholic aristocratic Yorkshire family whose mother has run off, so the theatre-mad butler has brought him up like a son to be a Great Actor.
Coco Hampton, Oliver's best friend, has been raised in Sloane Street by Gladys, her profligate guardian, who is always borrowing money from Coco to buy more clothes.
Gladys and Oliver have been fans of the theatre since they were knee-high, but Coco has only ever wanted to be a designer. When Coco joins Oliver at his drama school in London, to his chagrin she promptly gets cast in films because of her photogenic looks.
Meanwhile, Elsie is 'discovered' in the provinces by Portly Cosgrove; shortly before meeting Oliver who promptly falls in love with her. And elsewhere, on location, Coco has her first affair with a handsome actor, which doesn't end well...
A colourful cast of characters and a script you just couldn't make up...!
As comforting as a hot milky drink on a stormy night. Her legions of fans will not be disappointed.
—— DAILY EXPRESSThere can be few [novelists], if any, with as much good humour and generosity... As in many of Vonnegut's novels, the career of his central character matches his own at several crucial points, and this gives his amiable fictions their sharp sting of the real... A tour de force that Vonnegut handles in a masterly way.
—— Guardian - J. G. BallardBurnside's prose is exquisite and he dissects his themes with delicacy to produce a novel resonant with poetic menace
—— Sunday TimesAn exceptionally sinister book... It is the story of Luke, whose experiments into the nature of human language are recounted with all the beguiling reasonableness of the highly intelligent madman... The horror is tempered and fine-tuned by the exceptional beauty of Burnside's writing... In Luke, Burnside has produced one of the most chilling voices in recent fiction
—— Times Literary SupplementMy favourite book of the year
—— Jen Campbell’s vlogIt is hard to better Jean Plaidy when she is in form...both elegant and exciting as she steers a stylish path through the feuding Plantagenets.
—— Daily MirrorOutstanding
—— Vanity FairJean Plaidy conveys the texture of various patches of the past with such rich complexity
—— GuardianA flawless jewel
—— Philadelphia InquirerForeign Affairs is probably Alison Lurie’s best novel to date, certainly it is a triumph, and much of its success stems from its accomplished plotting. Lurie has known from the first how to tell a story brilliantly through the consciousness of a woman who in type and circumstance resembles the author herself
—— Marilyn Butler , London Review of BooksThe first chapter is one of the most captivating in any recent novel I have read
—— New York Review of BooksLurie weaves a characteristically sharp-eyed, deftly ironic comedy of cultural collisions and collusions that rightly won her comparisons to Henry James and Edith Wharton
—— Sunday TimesI am convinced that Alison Lurie's fiction will long outlast that of many currently more fashionable names. There is no American writer I have read with more constant pleasure and sympathy over the years. Foreign Affairs earns the same shelf as Henry James and Edith Wharton
—— John Fowles , Sunday TimesA brilliant novel - her best I think. The book is a triumph, and not simply of style...Foreign Affairs is witty, acerbic, and sometimes fiendishly clever
—— Paul Bailey , Evening StandardWarm, clever and funny
—— Times Literary Supplement
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