The Birthday Present.

BARBARA VINE

Publication: Viking, 2008, London

First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket. Spring, 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 attractive Tesham, a womanizer and ambitious politician. On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember. 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.

Inventory Number: 26936