The birthday present
By: Barbara Vine
Edition: Large print edition.
Publisher: Windsor/Paragon; AUDIOGO
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Bath?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9781408415054; 9781408427880
Subjects: Adultery; Fiction; Politicians; Sexual behaviour; Political corruption
Description: "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."--Publisher description.
Notes: Originally published: London: Viking, 2008.