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Book SynopsisA darkly comic novel about a rich family on the edge of ruin, by the author of the Booker-shortlisted In Every Face I Meet and Richard & Judy selection The Promise of Happiness.''Other People''s Money is wise, droll and beautiful fiction'' David Mitchell''
What a great read this is. Cartwright assembles a wonderful cast of characters in this masterpiece of a comic novel'' Observer''A high-class piece of literary entertainment'' SpectatorThe Trevelyan family is in grave trouble.Their private bank of Tubal & Co. is on the verge of collapsing. It''s not the first time in its three-hundred-and-forty year history, but it may be the last.A sale is under way, and a number of important facts need to be kept hidden, not only from the public, but also from Julian Trevelyan-Tubal''s deeply traditional father, Sir Harry, who is incapacitated in the family villa in Antibes.Great families, great fortunes and even grea
Trade ReviewOther People's Money is wise, droll and beautiful fiction * David Mitchell *
What a great read this is. Cartwright assembles a wonderful cast of characters in this masterpiece of a comic novel * Observer *
A high-class piece of literary entertainment * Spectator *
Urgently topical fiction with its finger on the pulse of earth-shaking events ... Cartwright¹s fiction has an uncanny habit of catching the zeitgeist in nets of fine-meshed tragi-comic steel * Independent *
Cartwright's novel displays, with triumphant accomplishment, the pleasures and the potency of on-the-spot social reportage * Sunday Times Choice *
A delicately patterned novel about the heroic search for happiness and its ultimate fragility. The comfortable middle-class setting and faintly fairytale ending belie a portrait of family life in which concealment and compromise are never far away. Quietly moving *
Financial Times *
Sublime ... While the engrossing story gradually builds to the urgency of a thriller, it is the richly drawn characters who provide the novel's enduring pleasure ... a brilliantly entertaining satire * Sunday Times *
This satire has many strengths - not least of all making the crash understandable to those (like me and, as we now know, bankers) who did not understand it. And there are countless moments of excellence * The Times *
Very cleverly put together, and funny as well
* William Leith, Evening Standard *
Caustic and entertaining * Independent *
Cartwright builds his enjoyably satirical comedy of manners ... Cartwright is a sophisticated enough writer to make the predictability of these characters seem like part of the joke, as if to underline the moribund nature of the world he depicts ... a well-paced and absorbing read
* Alex Clark, Guardian *
Shady dealings at a venerable family bank provide the backdrop for a masterful chronicle of the way we live now * Observer *
