''Brilliance on every page'' Samantha Harvey
''A revelatory novel'' Sunday Times
-So brilliant and wise on chance, love, sex, money'' David Nicholls
-How do I get out of a reading slump? This is the book to do that- Rhianna Dhillon, BBC Radio 4
At first there seems to be no reason to deny the body what it wants, whenever it wants it.
Fifteen-year-old Istv-lives with his mother in a quiet apartment complex in Hungary. New to the town and shy, he is unfamiliar with the social rituals at school and soon becomes isolated, with his neighbour - a married woman close to his mother-s age - as his only companion. As these encounters shift into a clandestine relationship, Istv-s life spirals out of control.
Years later, rising through the ranks from the army to the elite circles of London''s super-rich, he navigates the twenty-first century''s tides of money and power. Torn between love, intimacy, status, an
