'An enjoyably voyeuristic drama of ambition, exploitation and
betrayal, which illustrates how desire for acceptance can lead us
to neglect others' The Bookseller Pick of the Month On a balmy
evening in late March, an oligarch's wife hosts a party on a
superyacht moored in the Maldives. Tables cover the massive deck,
adorned with orchids, champagne bottles, name cards of celebrities.
Uniformed staff flank a red carpet on the landing dock. This is
what Kata has wanted for a long time: acceptance into the
glittering world of high society. But there are those who aim to
come between Kata and her goal, and they are closer to home than
she could have imagined. Witness to the corruption and violence
underneath the shiny surfaces is Mel, a young English woman
employed to tutor Kata's precocious daughter and navigate her
through the class codes of English privilege. Now the closest Mel
gets to such privilege is as hired help to the wealthy, and she is
deeply resentful. Exquisitely written and deliciously unreliable,
Queen K takes the reader to some of the most luxurious places in
the world. But a dark refrain sounds from the very beginning of the
story and grows towards its operatic finale: a novel about
insatiable material desire can only ever be a tragedy.
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