While You Sleep

Stephanie Merritt

Harpercollins

Storm

Gaveston

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Faber and Faber

<p>Gaveston is a journey into the dark heart of obsession and sexual politics by one of the rising stars of contemporary British fiction.When Gaby Harvey, daughter of media magnate Sir Edward Hamilton Harvey and research student at the prestigious St Dunstan's College, first sets eyes on Piers Gaveston, she immediately senses danger. Aloof, narcissistic and devastatingly attractive, Gaveston's charms still prove irresistible to Gaby and as he works his way through the London media world, so he works a way into her affections, with devastating consequences.'Stephanie Merritt's deliciously dark dbut novel has an unusually erudite cast of characters . . . The glamorous life that these characters enjoys suggests, in the most enjoyable way, an episode of 'Dallas' co-written by Iris Murdoch and David Lodge, and directed by Ingmar Bergman.' New Statesman</p>

Faber&Faber

<p>Sally McGinley, 29, is a playwright who has watched her university friends achieve success in film and theatre while her career is diminishing. Greg Burns, 44, is an actor on the slide - television success in a vet drama six years ago is a distant memory, and his twelve-year relationship with Caroline and his ten-year-old daughter has hit hard and frustrating times. When Sally is commissioned to write a new play for top director Freddie Zamora in the West End and Greg is cast as the male lead, both of them seize the opportunity to enliven their professional lives. Greg moves to London and they begin an affair which at first seems just the kind of reckless, sexual adventure they'd craved; until, disbelievingly, Sally announces she is pregnant and they are both forced to make decisions that catapult them into a recognition of just what real life entails.</p>

Real

Literary

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