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