Very Like a Whale

ISBN-13: 9780571259106 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 190 str.

Ferdinand Mount

Opis

Pheasant-shooting on the Wiltshire downs; East-West conflict in a Berlin night club; infighting in city boardrooms; and sexual skirmishing in the Kensington outback, on the fringes of Winkhill golf club and in a smart Basque resort are some of the elements of this novel. The story concerns the Whale family: Hervey, a less than brilliant Tory Minister; his father, an amiable retired Brigadier; his vague wife Cynthia, and their son George, a young man working in a merchant bank. The Whales are solid, passive and prone to daydreams but their respectable facade threatens to crumble when external forces infiltrate their family unit. "Very Like a Whale", Ferdinand Mount's first novel, displays quiet wit and elegance as he explores the underlying theme of power in personal relations.