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Mention his name and most people will say, 'Who?' while the rest think for a bit and ask if he wasn't the one who got involved in all that sleaze back whenever it was ...? It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three 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 politican. On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember: something far more memorable than, say, the costly string of pearls he's already lavished upon her. Involving a fashionable new practice 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.
Genre: Mystery
Genre: Mystery
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Title: Birthday Present, The (Large Print Book)
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ISBN: 1-4084-1505-4 / 978-1-4084-1505-4 (UK edition)
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Title: The Birthday Present
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Title: The Birthday Present
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Title: The Birthday Present [Large Print]: 16 Point
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ISBN: 1-85878-966-4 / 978-1-85878-966-8 (UK edition)
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Title: The Birthday Present
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ISBN: 1-4893-9342-0 / 978-1-4893-9342-5 (Australia edition)
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Title: The Birthday Present
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ISBN: 1-4084-3906-9 / 978-1-4084-3906-7 (UK edition)
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