Trust

Ajay Close

2/2014 · Hachette UK

Táto e‑kniha

Lexa, Gabriel and Rae are unlikely friends. Let's call them sisters-in-arms. They meet in the oppressively masculine world of merchant banking in the 1980s, that polarised decade of strikes and deprivation, serious money and conspicuous consumption. Twenty-five years later, in the comfort zone of middle age, those awful yet exhilarating days are a distant memory. Lexa, Gabriel and Rae have other jobs, in another country. Then comes the banking crisis, and the return of a face from the past, and suddenly they're back in the game, and playing for higher stakes than ever...

O autorovi

Ajay Close is a novelist and dramatist. Her first novel, Official and Doubtful, was longlisted for the Orange Prize. Her latest novel, Trust, will be published by Blackfriars in February 2014.

Ajay's first career was in journalism, where she won many awards. She has written for Scotland on Sunday, the Scotsman, the Sunday Herald, the Herald, the Scottish Review of Books, the Sunday Times, the Independent, the New Statesman, and other publications.