A new novel from the much acclaimed author of }Something To Tell You, The Buddha Of Suburbia{ and many others, who also wrote the screenplay for the film }Le Weekend{. Follows a young author who is commissioned to write the biography of an eminent Indian-born writer who he idolised, but who soon finds that the publishers want him to write a tale of sex and scandal. 'No one else casts such a shrewd and gimlet eye on contemporary life.' William Boyd