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It’s overdue springtime 1990, and a love affair is flourishing between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three-year-old rising celebrity of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife caught in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply paid out by the well-bred and intensely attractive Tesham – an ardent womanizer and ambitious politician.
Around the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present-day to keep in mind: something a lot more memorable than, say, the costly string of pearls he’s already lavished after her. Years later, Tesham’s gift idea will ruin his profession, his family, and his life.
Set amid an time of IRA bombings, the first Gulf Conflict, and sleazy politics, The Birthday Present is the gripping story of a land from elegance, and of a guy who carries within him all the hypocrisy, greed, and self-obsession of the troubled era.
