
Its late spring of 1990 & a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatchers Conservative government & 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 & intensely attractive Tesham
- an ardent womanizer & 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 hes 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 & gagged & delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue.. . Set amidst an age of IRA bombings the first Gulf War & sleazy politics The Birthday Present" is the gripping story of a fall from grace & of a man who carries within him all the hypocrisy greed & self-obsession of a troubled era."