I thought this book was spellbinding -�the plot was compulsively stimulating - interesting and captivating!!!! It drew me in with a magnetic force. But Ben wouldn't do anything to damage their friendship. His wife, Lucy, has her reservations too. Amid the hundreds of guests-the politicians, the celebrities, the old-money and newly rich-Martin once again feels that disturbing pang of not-quite belonging. It is a secret that will bind the two of them together for the best part of 25 years.Īt Ben's 40th birthday party, the great and the good of British society are gathering to celebrate in a haze of champagne, drugs and glamour. He knows something about Ben, something he will never tell. Soon Martin is enjoying tennis parties and Easter egg hunts at the Fitzmaurice family's estate, as Ben becomes the brother he never had.īut Martin has a secret. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. Because, although I didn't know it yet, I was about to meet Ben and nothing would ever be the same again. A gripping story of obsession and betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment.Īs the train pressed on, I realised that my life was in the process of taking a different direction, plotted according to a new constellation.
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