The Gatecrasher
By: Madeleine Wickham
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: W.F. Howes Ltd.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rearsby
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781407400501
Subjects: Life change events; Fiction; Middle-aged women
Description: Fleur is beautiful but lazy and spends her life looking for rich men who can provide her and her teenage daughter with a glamorous and effortless existence. A daily trawl through the court pages of The Times provides her with an unusual but fertile search area - the funerals and memorial services of the great and good, where gatecrashers are so much less noticeable than they would be at a wedding or a christening. It is at one of these sad but oddly festive occasions that she meets Richard, dull but well-off, whose mousey wife has died after a lifetime of enjoyable ill-health. Before long Fleur has become an integral part of Richard's life, offending his friends, interfering in his leisure pursuits and stirring up his grown-up children to behave badly.
Notes: Originally published: London: Black Swan, 1998.