‘Brilliance on every page’Samantha Harvey
‘Spare, visceral, urgent, compelling. This book doesn’t f**k around’Gary Stevenson
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 thatRhianna Dhillon,BBC Radio 4

Through chance, luck and choice, one mans life takes him from a modest apartment in Hungary to the elite society of London in this captivating new novel about the forces that make and break our lives

*A summer reading pick in theGuardian,Sunday Times,Observer,Financial Times,Daily Mail*

Fifteen-year-old Istvn 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 mothers age as his only companion. As these encounters shift into a clandestine relationship, Istvns 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, and wealth, his newfound riches threaten to undo him completely.