When wealth and privilege are not enough ...
An absorbing novel about old values and how society, in the supposed age of equality, still applauds class and class distinction and, given the opportunity, snubs ostentatious riches.
Nick and Giles are soul mates, handsome and charming, public school friends from similar wealthy, privileged backgrounds. Nick's father, however, is nouveau riche, a millionaire of Greek extraction; Giles's a complacent, well-bred lawyer, with centuries of family tradition behind him, a pillar of the Establishment.
When worldly success doesn't go the way that nature - or the Establishment - intends, the respective families are shocked. But not as shocked as the boys, children of the rich and on the verge of manhood, are when they both fall for the same girl: lovely Laura, from an impoverished working class home with neither the privileges nor grandiose wealth of her suitors. Yet with hard work and ambition she has obtained a place at Oxford University where she meets Nick. However Giles having unexpectedly failed to gain entry to Oxford, ends up at a northern university close to Laura's home town. Their families meanwhile have also become inextricably entwined. The trials and tribulations that befall them, Laura, Giles and Nick in their quest for happiness and fulfillment have surprising and unexpected results.
Genre: General Fiction
An absorbing novel about old values and how society, in the supposed age of equality, still applauds class and class distinction and, given the opportunity, snubs ostentatious riches.
Nick and Giles are soul mates, handsome and charming, public school friends from similar wealthy, privileged backgrounds. Nick's father, however, is nouveau riche, a millionaire of Greek extraction; Giles's a complacent, well-bred lawyer, with centuries of family tradition behind him, a pillar of the Establishment.
When worldly success doesn't go the way that nature - or the Establishment - intends, the respective families are shocked. But not as shocked as the boys, children of the rich and on the verge of manhood, are when they both fall for the same girl: lovely Laura, from an impoverished working class home with neither the privileges nor grandiose wealth of her suitors. Yet with hard work and ambition she has obtained a place at Oxford University where she meets Nick. However Giles having unexpectedly failed to gain entry to Oxford, ends up at a northern university close to Laura's home town. Their families meanwhile have also become inextricably entwined. The trials and tribulations that befall them, Laura, Giles and Nick in their quest for happiness and fulfillment have surprising and unexpected results.
Genre: General Fiction
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