From the book jacket:
A fast-moving, elegant novel set in contemporary London in the glittery world of charity auctions,
big business, high art, and more than enough money to spare.
Take one wealthy businessman on to his second marriage to an avid,
successful young woman; one ex-wife who happens to be a saint; one artist,
and a portrait for sale; two women wearing Bulgari necklaces: add a touch
of the supernatural, a big dose of envy, stir, and see what happens.
Bio from the book jacket:
Fay Weldon was born in England and raised in New Zealand.
She took degrees in Economics and Psychology at the University of St Andrews
in Scotland and after a decade of odd jobs and hard times began writing fiction.
She is now well known as a novelist, screen writer and cultural journalist.
Her novels include The Life and Times of a She-Devil, Puffball,
The Cloning of Joanna May, Affliction, Worst Fears, Big Women and Rhode
Island Blues. She has several collections of short stories to her name:
her latest being A Hard Time To Be a Father and she has also written
a collection of essays, Godless in Eden.
Fay Weldon lives in London.