The Naive and Sentimental LoverAldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife. Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.

Just nine years old

is the only way to do it

close despite their different characters

As the kaleidoscope of outlandish characters

But Betty isn't new here

A counterpart to the privileged Thatcher-era London of Alan Hollinghursts The Line of Beauty

Christy Lefteri has crafted a novel which is intimate and epic

an attack will be unleashed that will rock the country to its very core

the man with tflat cap and tsliding rule

with lots of sinister implications

1 bestseller and global phenomenon

the media and everyone in America believe she knew and helped cover up her husband's crimes