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It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing between Ivor Tesham, a 33-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 politician. On the eve of her 28th birthday Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember: something more memorable than, say, the costly string of pearls he's already lavished on her; involving a fashionable new practise 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...
Set amidst an age of IRA bombings, the first Gulf War and sleazy politics, the Birthday Present is the gripping story of a fall from grace, and of a man who carries within him all the hypocrisy, greed and self-obsession of a troubled era.
Soft cover, good condition. 274 pages.
