Gaveston is a journey into the dark heart of obsession and sexual politics by one of the rising stars of contemporary British fiction.
When Gaby Harvey, daughter of media magnate Sir Edward Hamilton Harvey and research student at the prestigious St Dunstan's College, first sets eyes on Piers Gaveston, she immediately senses danger. Aloof, narcissistic and devastatingly attractive, Gaveston's charms still prove irresistible to Gaby and as he works his way through the London media world, so he works a way into her affections, with devastating consequences.
'Stephanie Merritt's deliciously dark début novel has an unusually erudite cast of characters . . . The glamorous life that these characters enjoys suggests, in the most enjoyable way, an episode of 'Dallas' co-written by Iris Murdoch and David Lodge, and directed by Ingmar Bergman.' New Statesman
- ISBN10 0571210651
- ISBN13 9780571210657
- Publish Date 19 May 2003 (first published 3 June 2002)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 26 October 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Edition Main
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 400
- Language English