In the Europe of 100 years from now, the European Union is the supreme leader of the free world. Ambassador Bill Strether is sent by the US President to the UK to represent his country, where fundamentalists have banned the medical advances in genetic cloning taken for granted in his new home. Al...
Elaine Stalker, newly elected MP, has worked hard for her election to Westminster. But the unequivocally masculine atmosphere of the House of Commons is a hostile environment for an attractive, ambitious woman and Elaine is frustrated when her talents are ignored. Relishing his powerful role as w...
I picked this up from my local library just before it was moved to a different branch.It is Edwina Currie’s third political novel. This Honourable House, opens with an election resulting in a victory for a party not dissimilar to New Labour. It follows with all the sex, spin, and scandal in any ...
Teenage Helen and her friend Colette entertain hopes of escaping their lives in Liverpool through going to college. But Helen's family and their desire to keep her with them inhibit her, and when she meets a handsome American serviceman, she is forced to confront some awkward realities.
Hetty and Doris sat in the latter’s kitchen comforted by a pot of tea. In the garden of The Swallows a few hellebore flowers peeped out under the sodden bushes, pale heads nodding like forlorn refugees. Out of the window, Hetty saw Thomas sniff the pathetic clumps with lordly indifference. ...
Behind him Pramila tried to compose her anxious face. If he did not absolutely adore the article then it must have been, as she had feared all along, a terrible mistake. That her friends had been telephoning the whole morning, their voices creaking with envy, was no consolation. They would say th...