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For Andy Gates it is no longer a question of 'Aren't you so-and-so?' but rather, 'Didn't you used to be . .?'
Andy and Phil Jessup were famous for fifteen seconds. Their band had a worldwide hit when their single 'Waterbed' was used on the soundtrack to a jeans commercial but overnight success slunk away at dawn and their Difficult Second Album, 'Luxury Amnesia', was never released. Five years later Andy is eking a living as a painter and decorator and Phil's solo career as a singer has foundered. In his search for a short-cut back from obscurity, Phil introduces Andy to the sinister and destructive world of the Bowring family. Posh, rich and stupid would-be musician Mark Bowring has everything to live for. His speculator father, Richard, might have run into problems developing golf courses in the Far East but Mark's young step-mother Emma wants to have it all - except for the job and the kids. Hoping to rekindle lost love, Andy finds himself redecorating the Bowring house at the precise moment when greed, sloth and thwarted ambition pull the family apart, drawing Andy into a quicksand pool of lies and extortion until it looks as if he might be back in the papers again, this time facing a murder charge.
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I liked the story, I liked the characters I think I should have and disliked the ones I shouldn't have. I also felt sorry for the characters that were sad cases.
I think the strength of the story is that it revolves around a plot that seems as if the murder might be just have been a bit of a mistake; but unravels to have been carefully laid out plot. The strength of the novel pours out of the inept way in which the two main characters attempt to sort it all out. They do sort it all out in the end but after a lot of pain and heartache; not to mention driving all over the place with a corpse in the back of a painter's van.
I was intrigued by the sex scene in which we are led to believe that the female party of the action was supposed to be trying to wheedle a load of crucial information from the male party of the action. Well, given the position she put herself into, both literally and figuratively, she was onto a bit of a loser on that score. She got no information; but seems to have enjoyed the sex!
A weakness of mine is that when I read a British book, I wince when I see Americanisms creeping in to the narrative. I don't mean that the characters themselves can't pretend that they are Uncle Sam's best mate. I mean that when I read "putting me on" instead of "having me on", it doesn't sit well for me: Brits don't say that, do they? I found a few of these dotted around the book and they definitely grated on me.
Definitely worth a read, definitely worth making a deliberate attempt to get a copy of this book. I haven't read any iof Huggins' other stuff; but I will look out for it.
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