![]() There is naturally some intrigue, romance and dodgy dealings, muddled up by copious wine and free holidays on a luxury yacht. ![]() This ill-mannered sponger doesn't give a good impression of the press so we could have done with a balance. A circuit of stylish events has begun to feel like a treadmill for our protagonist, who has two small children and is obliged to put up and put up with a journalist because her husband's office wants to keep the press sweet. The cast is presumably drawn from figures of the author's actual life, with an impossibly glamorous French lady, a keep-fit demon, tediously serious diplomats and business people, cringingly crooked politicians and amusing Latin would-be lovers. A Scandinavian lady who married a member of the Irish embassy staff, currently in Paris, finds that life is more boring and less romantic than she'd expected. ![]() This book reads like a Jilly Cooper set among the diplomatic staff of Europe, with less sex and no teenagers. ![]()
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