The devil I know
Subtitle: a novel
By: Claire Kilroy
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9780802122377; 9780802192691
Subjects: Real estate development; Avarice; Fiction
Description: "Tristram St. Lawrence has not been home for years--ever since he missed his mother's deathbed in favor of going on a bender, the thirteenth Earl of Howth is not welcome in the family castle. Now sober, he lives an itinerant life in self-imposed exile, and his main confidant is his sponsor, a mysterious businessman who Tristram knows only as M. Deauville. One day, when his plane is unexpectedly diverted to Dublin, Tristram ends up where he started, and an old acquaintance, a bully from his school days who's now making a name in construction, pitches to Tristram an ambitious and expensive development project. The trouble is, M. Deauville thinks it's a good idea, and before Tristram knows it he's settled in Howth under his father's baleful gaze and is up to his neck in funding proposals, zoning approvals, and the personal life of his business partner" --
Notes: "This edition first published in Great Britain in 2012 by Faber and Faber Limited" -- title page verso.