AN OBSERVER Reserve OF THE YEAR

A gripping story of betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, occur the unassailable heart of the United kingdom establishment.

‘Think that Brideshead Revisited matches The Talented Mr Ripley with a dash from the Riot Club. I couldn’t place it down’ Louise O’Neill, writer of Asking For It

‘As the train pressed on, I realised that my life was along the way of taking a different about The Party direction, plotted according to a new constellation. Because, although I didn’t know it yet, I was about to match Ben and nothing would ever be the same again.’

Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship or grant to Burtonbury School, he doesn’t use the right clothing or speak with the right sort of accent. But he fits the dazzling, popular and rich Ben Fitzmaurice, and increases admission to an exclusive world. Shortly Martin is savoring tennis celebrations and Easter egg hunts on the Fitzmaurice family’s estate, as Ben becomes the brother he never had.

But Martin includes a key. He knows something about Ben, something he’ll never tell. It is a key that may bind the two of them collectively for the best element of 25 years.

At Ben’s 40th party, the fantastic and the good of British society are gathering to celebrate within a haze of champagne, medicines and glamour. Amid the a huge selection of guests – the politicians, the celebrities, the old-money and newly rich – Martin once again feels that troubling pang of not-quite belonging. His wife, Lucy, has her reservations as well. There is disquiet in the air flow. But Ben wouldn’t perform anything to damage their friendship.

Would he?

‘The twists and converts that the book takes should never be predictable and the book becomes as unsettling since it can be involving. One particular books that a person reads in a single day time because you definitely have to know how it becomes out’ John Boyne, writer of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas