WHEN POWER AND PLEASURE TURN POUNDS INTO PENNIES The Binghams and the Townsends are attractive, privileged, fulfilled. They live in Rushington, charming and prosperous town whose inhabitants are enjoying the best of the boom. Natalie and Hilary re best friends. They each exude kindness and generosity, traits mutually admired. Their anxieties include what evening class to attend, where to take the next holiday. Happiness is state-of-the-art Rushington. Or so it would seem. Then into their smug and smooth lives erupts a new couple – a thrusting bank manager and his socially ambitious wife. And before you could say ‘Black Wednesday’, that taboo word recession begins to have some meaning… This story of contemporary life, of love, ambition, success and failure, will strike a chord with anyone who has survived the good times and the bad. Moving and relevant, it is also totally enthralling. ‘A heady brew of jet-setting schemers and glorious locations’TODAY ‘Bubbles with plots, counter-plots, mystery and romance’PRIMA ‘An absorbing novel’ANNABEL