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Other People's Money. by Justin Cartwright
Justin Cartwright
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Description for Other People's Money. by Justin Cartwright
Hardcover. The new novel by the author of the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet and Richard & Judy selection The Promise of Happiness. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 490. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper . First edition signed by the author
The upper-crust, family-owned bank of Tubal & Co, in the City of London, is in trouble. It's not the first time in its three hundred and forty year history, but it may be the last. A secret sale is under way, and a number of facts need to be kept hidden from the regulators and major clients. Masterminded by the bank's chariman, Julian Trevelyan-Tubal, hundreds of millions of pounds are being diverted - temporarily - to shore the bank up until it can be sold. Julian's aging father, Sir Harry, incapacitated by a stroke at the family villa in Antibes, ... Read more
The upper-crust, family-owned bank of Tubal & Co, in the City of London, is in trouble. It's not the first time in its three hundred and forty year history, but it may be the last. A secret sale is under way, and a number of facts need to be kept hidden from the regulators and major clients. Masterminded by the bank's chariman, Julian Trevelyan-Tubal, hundreds of millions of pounds are being diverted - temporarily - to shore the bank up until it can be sold. Julian's aging father, Sir Harry, incapacitated by a stroke at the family villa in Antibes, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408803882
SKU
KEX0303544
Shipping Time
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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. by Justin Cartwright
'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