The party is where it all unravels and where the dark secret between rich, aristocratic Ben and poor, middle-class Martin is exposed. We are kept very much in the dark about the secret until nearly the end of the book. The story is set in different time zones and locations. We start with Martin being questioned by the police just after the party.
We flick to school and university days. We come back to Martin’s wife Lucy’s diary she is told to keep in the psychiatric unit. We move to the party itself and so on as the mystery builds and the two young lives are mapped out. Martin plots his way into Ben’s life with care until the perfect opportunity arrives and Ben is suddenly very much in Martin’s debt.
So the friendship builds throughout their young lives, careers and wives, they are ‘best friends’ until suddenly they are not. The message is very much “If you’re lucky enough to be born ‘into it’ you are made, if you are not then you are wasting your life trying to break in”.
This is dark stuff. All the way through doom hangs over the pages. Will Martin get his revenge? In an elegant read you’ll be hooked finding out. ~ Sarah Broadhurst
July 2017 Book of the Month.
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR ITV SERIES'TERRIFYING, HILARIOUS' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE'A SMART, IRRESISTABLE ROMP' NEW YORK TIMESA gripping story of betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment, from the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of Magpie and One of Us, Elizabeth Day. Martin Gilmour and Ben Fitzmaurice have been best friends for 25 years, since their days together at Burtonbury School.
The Party features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Books with reviews by our Reader Review Panel, Family Drama, Book Club Recommendations, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Party was written by Elizabeth Day and published by 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
The Party has 304 pages
