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For all those who adore Joanna Trollope's cool, honest writing style comes the fifth novel in the hugely popular CAPER COURT series. Leo Davies QC - charismatic, attractive and sexually ambiguous - inspires powerful feelings. Feelings that sometimes border on obsession. There's Sarah - manipulative, scheming but sexy; Anthony, Leo's ex-pupil and close friend; Gideon, a civil servant on the make; and sweet, smitten Camilla, a junior lawyer in his chambers. Plenty of opportunities, then, for aruthless, silver-haired sophisticate to have his fun. But Leo is beginning to feel rather jaded by his hedonistic lifestyle. Perhaps what he really needs is - love? Could it be that the legendarily cool Leo will fall? And, if so, for whom ...?
About the Author
Caro Fraser read law at King's College, London. She was called to the bar in 1979 and worked as a shipping lawyer, and has now been writing full-time for the last eight years. She has written eight other novels, four of which are part of the highly successful, critically acclaimed Caper Court series. Her most recent novel, A LITTLE LEARNING, was published by Penguin in 2001. She is married to a solicitor and has four children.
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26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What had always seemed imminent in Caro Fraser's earlier work, from her experimental incidental novels to the growing 5 Caper Court saga, here becomes manifest. This is simply a brilliant novel, fulfilling all the promise of her earlier efforts and surpassing them in the emotional range and psychological perception achieved. Her themes have never been worked out with such cutting accuracy or such important specificity: the unfixable nature of desire, the parallel certainties and follies of the law, the danger of lust unbounded by emotional awareness. Leo Davies finally precipitates a series of entanglements which bring home to him the damage that his sexual identity, both as desiring and desired object, can inflict. The apparent telos of the series, Anthony and Leo's sexual union comes in the middle of the novel and is shown to be as unstable as Leo's other entanglements, before a shattering conclusion which reinscribes the importance of profound emotional bonds. The development of the Angelicos storyline provides a telling comment on the frightening nature of obsessions and love: is anyone free of the taint of insanity when it comes to these things? This is a huge leap forward in Caro Fraser's oeuvre, a novel which, I hope, signals her accession to artistic maturity and that heralds a very exciting new presence in the field of top-class fiction. Unsettling and unmissable, as all great fiction should be.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Caro Frasers tales of 5 Caper Court are captivating. I have read them from the beginning and seen the characters grow and develop. At the end of this book I sighed and now wait with bated breath for the next one. Will Leo every find what he is looking for....
2 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
What a disappointment! I have been told such wonderful things about these books but felt wholeheartedly disappointed with its trite plot and characters I couldn't care for. I found myself strugggling through the overlong plot, hoping that at some point I would be proved wrong!
I felt no sympathy for the characters, even though it felt that it was expected of the reader. Far from feeling sorry for them in their state of emotional immaturity, they seemed foolish. As the book forms part of a series I expect that readers will be able to witness the development of these characters, however, there was not enough in this particular book which made me want to come back for more.
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