Every year since they can remember, two couples have spent their summers on the sun-drenched shores of Palm Beach. Beautiful, rich and powerful they are life's golden ones, born to a world of limitless possibilities. Hugh is handsome, foolhardy and self-obsessed, and married to Helen, a woman his equal in everything but luck. Then there is obstinate, sultry Pup and her husband, Richard. Now a hollowed-out man, Richard recalls this paradise, these seemingly immaculate lives, and slowly exposes a core of infidelity only possible between the most intimate of friends.
'Assured and gripping . . . a compelling novel with a sinister undertow . . . Impressive' TLS
'[Knox's] clear-eyed wisdom and startling, depth-charged prose constitute a novel that should become as much of a classic as the one he has remoulded . . . Astoundingly accomplished' Guardian
- ISBN10 0312301626
- ISBN13 9780312301620
- Publish Date 1 January 2003 (first published 1 July 2001)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Picador USA
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English