WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/135760854

The birthday present

A love affair is flourishing between Ivor Tesham, a rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe, a stunning housewife stuck in a dull marriage. On the eve of her birthday, Tesham decides to give her a present to remember. He arranges for her to be snatched from the street, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue.

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "A love affair is flourishing between Ivor Tesham, a rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe, a stunning housewife stuck in a dull marriage. On the eve of her birthday, Tesham decides to give her a present to remember. He arranges for her to be snatched from the street, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue."@en
  • "Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, decides to give his unhappily married girlfriend an unusual present for her twenty-eighth birthday, but it is a gift that will ruin his career, his family and his life."@en
  • "It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three-year-old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. On the eve of Hebe's twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give her a present to remember: something far more memorable than, say, the costly string of pearls he's already lavished upon her. Years later, this gift will ruin his career, his family, and his life."
  • "A love affair is flourishing between Ivor Tesham and Hebe Furnal. What excitement Hebe lacks at home is compensated for by the well-bred and attractive Tesham. On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember: something far more memorable than the costly string of pearls he's already lavished upon her."@en
  • "Ivor Tesham is a handsome, single, young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. When he meets a woman in a chance encounter -- a beautiful, leggy, married woman named Hebe -- the two become lovers obsessed with their trysts, spiced up by what the newspapers like to call "adventure sex." It's the dress-up and role-play that inspire Ivor to create a surprise birthday present for his beloved that involves a curbside kidnapping. It's all intended as mock-dangerous foreplay, but then things take a dark turn. After things go horribly wrong, Ivor begins to receive anonymous letters that reveal astonishingly specific details about the affair and its aftermath. Somehow he must keep his role from being uncovered -- and his political future from being destroyed by scandal. Like a heretic on the inquisitor's rack, Ivor is not to be spared the exquisitely slow and tortuous unfolding of events, as hints, nuances, and small revelations lay his darkest secrets hideously bare for all the world to see."@en
  • ""It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply compensated for by the well-bred and intensely attractive Tesham - an ardent womanizer and ambitious politican. On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember: something far more memorable than, say, the costly string of pearls he's already lavished upon her, involving a fashionable new practice known as 'adventure sex'. A man arranges for his unsuspecting but otherwise willing girlfriend to be snatched from the street, bound and gagged, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue."--Publisher description."
  • "It's 1990 and Ivor Tesham, a rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning housewife stuck in a dull marriage, embark on an affair. Tesham decides to give Hebe a birthday present to remember."@en
  • "Ivor Tesham is a handsome, single, young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. When he meets a woman in a chance encounter--a beautiful, leggy, married woman named Hebe--the two become lovers obsessed with their trysts, spiced up by what the newspapers like to call "adventure sex." After things go horribly wrong, Ivor begins to receive anonymous letters that reveal astonishingly specific details about the affair and its aftermath. Somehow he must keep his role from being uncovered--and his political future from being destroyed by scandal."@en
  • "Ivor Tesham is a handsome, single, young member of Parliament whose political star is on the rise. When he meets a woman in a chance encounter - a beautiful, leggy, married woman named Hebe - the two become lovers obsessed with their trysts, spiced up by what the newspapers like to call "adventure sex." It's the dress-up and role-play that inspire Ivor to create a surprise birthday present for his beloved that involves a curbside kidnapping. It's all intended as mock-dangerous foreplay, but then things take a dark turn. After things go horribly wrong, Ivor begins to receive anonymous letters that reveal astonishingly specific details about the affair and its aftermath. Somehow he must keep his role from being uncovered - and his political future from being destroyed by scandal. Like a heretic on the inquisitor's rack, Ivor is not to be spared the exquisitely slow and tortuous unfolding of events, as hints, nuances, and small revelations lay his darkest secrets hideously bare for all the world to see."@en
  • "Writing under the pen name Barbara Vine, the international bestselling author Ruth Rendell--the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world ("Time")--has created an unrelentingly riveting novel of mystery and suspense."
  • "Writing under the pen name Barbara Vine, the international bestselling author Ruth Rendell--the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world ("Time")--has created an unrelentingly riveting novel of mystery and suspense."@en
  • "It's 1990 & Ivor Tesham, a rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, & Hebe Furnal, a stunning housewife stuck in a dull marriage, embark on an affair. Tesham decides to give Hebe a birthday present to remember."@en

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Crime & mystery"@en
  • "Thriller / suspense"@en
  • "Thriller"@en
  • "Political fiction"
  • "Political fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "The birthday present"
  • "The birthday present"@en
  • "Rođendanski dar"
  • "The birthday present a novel"@en
  • "The Birthday Present"
  • "The Birthday Present"@en
  • "The birthday present : a novel"
  • "The birthday present : a novel"@en

workExample