Barley Salt is a very happy man. He is a rich, distinguished
businessman with a sexy new wife, Doris, who is 23 years younger
than him. So why does he find himself comparing the lovely Doris to
his dowdy and potentially murderous ex-wife, Grace? Despite all her
feminine assets and a top job presenting a television arts
programme, Doris is jealous and humourless; she also has an
insatiable greed for whatever she does not have, including the
supremely expensive Bulgari jewels of the title. In Weldon's words,
Doris is a woman 'who never lets a blade of grass grow if she can
grind it underfoot', and who 'would have called girlfriends but she
didn't have any'. But the tables are about to be turned in Weldon's
familiar fictional world of wronged women, feckless husbands and
useless therapists. Grace, who has served a short prison sentence
after trying to run down the nubile Doris in a supermarket car
park, acquires a young lover in up-and-coming artist Walter Wells
and in the process finds herself defying nature and being
transformed into a younger version of herself. As Grace's fortunes
rise, those of glamour couple Barley and Doris begin to teeter.
Barley risks all on a precarious property deal, Doris pushes her
professional luck and popularity too far and their increasingly
fragile status is mirrored by the disastrous renovations of their
country manor house, Wild Oats. In Doris, Weldon has created a
monstrous but hilarious character who meets a well-deserved
downfall. Weldon mercilessly sends up the fashionable, wealthy
London scene of art shows and charity functions, and contrasts it
with brushes with the Russian mafia and the blackmail attempts of
an ex-con. The Bulgari Connection is a romping, enjoyable read and,
as always, Weldon is sharp, funny and acute in her observations of
the foibles of human nature. (Kirkus UK)
'Doris Dubois is twenty-three years younger than I am. She is slimmer than I am, and more clever. She has a degree in economics, and hosts a TV arts programme. She lives in a big house with a swimming pool at the end of a country lane. It used to be mine…I tried to kill her once, but failed.'
Fay Weldon turns her gaze on London's super rich and delivers a thrilling satire on their world – charity auctions, commissioned portraits and exclusive designer jewellers. Not to mention adultery, attempted murder, bribery, corruption and more than a few tantrums.
"It is impossible for Fay Weldon to be dull. 'The Bulgari Connection' is her at her most seductive. It winds you in, intrigues and grips you until the end."
GAVIN ESLER, 'Daily Mail'
"A wonderful comedy of manners. Weldon writes with her characteristic dry humour and wonderful economy of language. Witty, profound and whimsical by turns, this is a sparkling novel, showing the hallmarks of a master craftsman."
WENDY HOLDEN, 'Literary Review'
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