Silk
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
Money. Sex. Power. Some things are always in fashion...
Christine Fairbrother is a London barrister, specialising in high profile divorces.
Her fashion designer daughter, Isabelle Cissé, is about to launch her first collection Full of dreams and ambitions, she also has a fatal weakness for unsuitable men...
Victoria Crabtree's position as the mistress of Massimo Rivelli, one of the world's leading manufacturers of couture fashion, is precarious. Massimo shows no sign of wanting to divorce his wife and Victoria's always in danger of being replaced with a younger model. But he's about to discover just what lengths Victoria will go to in order to survive...
Three women set on a collision course. Their lives and conflicting ambitions become tangled as Christine handles the divorce case that could give Victoria the man she's always wanted,but which could wreck her daughter's career.
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Scheming and backstabbing abound in James's look at the tension-filled, high-stakes world of fashion. After her own nuptials crumble, British divorce lawyer Christine Fairbrother is hoping to rise through to ranks to Queen's Counsel, colloquially known as "taking silk." Christine's daughter, Isabelle Ciss , is struggling to get her fashion designs noticed by the right people, including garment manufacturer Massimo Rivelli. Meanwhile, Victoria Crabtree, Massimo's mistress, plans to use Isabelle and her designs as part of a plot to get Massimo to finally leave his wife. What Victoria doesn't realize is that she will set events in motion that will tie all the characters together. James (Step Sisters) gives readers an entertaining glimpse into the not-so-glamorous, nuts-and-bolts side of fashion, but familiar characters the middle-aged woman beginning to date again after a divorce, the struggling young designer, the unhappy mistress desperate to oust the wife make the book feel more off-the-rack than haute couture.