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Other People´s Money
Justin Cartwright
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Description for Other People´s Money
Paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear and slight sunning to spine
The venerable bank of Tubal & Co is in trouble. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-year history - it was bailed out by Rothschilds' in 1847 - but this time will be the last. A sale is under way, and a number of rather important facts need to be kept hidden, especially from any potential buyer. Hundreds of millions of pounds are being diverted - temporarily - to shore it up, masterminded by the bank's chairman, Julian Trevelyan-Tubal. His aging father Sir Henry would be horrified, but fortunately he is in the early stages of dementia, writing admonitory ... Read more
The venerable bank of Tubal & Co is in trouble. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-year history - it was bailed out by Rothschilds' in 1847 - but this time will be the last. A sale is under way, and a number of rather important facts need to be kept hidden, especially from any potential buyer. Hundreds of millions of pounds are being diverted - temporarily - to shore it up, masterminded by the bank's chairman, Julian Trevelyan-Tubal. His aging father Sir Henry would be horrified, but fortunately he is in the early stages of dementia, writing admonitory ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408814130
SKU
KJE0001101
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Justin Cartwright
Justin Cartwright's novels include the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet, the Whitbread Novel Award-winner Leading the Cheers, the acclaimed White Lightning, shortlisted for the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award, The Promise of Happiness, selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club and winner of the 2005 Hawthornden Prize, The Song Before It Is Sung and, most recently, To Heaven By ... Read more
Reviews for Other People´s Money
'Other People's Money is wise, droll and beautiful fiction'
David Mitchell
‘His storytelling powers are so fluent and persuasive, the quality of his observation so fine'
Daily Telegraph
‘A high-class piece of literary entertainment'
Spectator
‘A delicately patterned novel about the heroic search for happiness and its ultimate fragility. The comfortable middle-class setting and ... Read more
David Mitchell
‘His storytelling powers are so fluent and persuasive, the quality of his observation so fine'
Daily Telegraph
‘A high-class piece of literary entertainment'
Spectator
‘A delicately patterned novel about the heroic search for happiness and its ultimate fragility. The comfortable middle-class setting and ... Read more