Daddy’s Girls
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $11.99
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Publisher Description
The book beaches were made for.
The Balcon sisters are London's paparazzi darlings. Serena, the country's most beautiful actress, Venetia the glamorous designer, Camilla the rising political star and Cate the feisty magazine editor. They have wealth, privilege and sizzling sex lives.
But money doesn't buy you love. When their aristocratic and tyrannical father Oswald Balcon is found dead, the finger of suspicion points towards his glamorous daughters and their dazzling lives. Suddenly we find that beneath the ritzy façade of the Balcon family lies a web of deceit and betrayal that hides a thirty-year-old secret that threatens to destroy them all.
From the sun drenched beaches of Mustique to Manhattan's elite society circuit. From the exclusive fashion houses of Milan to the star-studded streets of Cannes, the Balcon Sisters play out their lives in a whirl of glitz and the ultra chic. But as tragedy and danger stalks each one of them, the scene is set for a stunning climax.
Reviews
Praise for Tasmina Perry:
‘The hottest holiday accessory this season. Slick, glossy and gloriously bitchy’ Elle
‘The perfect beach read’ Marie Claire
‘Guilty Pleasures is an intelligent and stylish 21st-century take on the Jackie Collins genre’ Red
‘Celebrates the genre of the great big beach read with no holds barred’ Good Housekeeping
‘A sumptuously sexy book’ Elle
‘There’s no shortage of drama and double-dealing in this glitzy blockbuster’ Sainsbury’s Magazine
‘Original Sin is heading straight for the bestseller lists. We loved it’ Heat
‘Is your holiday incomplete without a glamorous, suspend-disbelief read? Then grab this . . . The spirit of The OC bottled in a book’ Cosmopolitan
About the author
Tasmina Perry left a career in law for the more glamorous world of women’s magazine journalism. She has written on celebrity and style for many national magazines including Marie-Claire, Glamour and Heat and was most recently Deputy Editor of InStyle magazine. She has also found time to launch her own travel and fashion magazine Jaunt. Her first novel Daddy’s Girls was a Sunday Times bestseller. She lives in Surrey with her husband and son.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Four daughters of wealthy Lord Oswald Balcon come under suspicion after he takes a fatal tumble in magazine journalist Perry's debut, a delightful offering for the beach set. Each daughter has a plausible motive. Actress Serena Balcon is involved with a ruthless hotelier tycoon, and her ensuing pregnancy could mean she carries the next Huntsford baron, but her father won't allow an illegitimate child to inherit the family fortune. Recently fired women's magazine editor Cate wants to put her own spin on a new upscale travel and fashion magazine, but daddy dearest tries to undermine it from the get-go. Venetia, head of a successful design company, yearns to branch out to the States, but dad, an important company shareholder, puts the kibosh on that as well. Barrister Camilla is singled out by her law firm to run for a vacant House of Commons seat, but Oswald, who has lost his seat in the House of Lords, tries to quash his daughter's political ambitions. The writing and plotting are swift, but Perry slaps on an unsatisfying conclusion and a too-pat epilogue. Still, her spicy first novel about four impossibly glam sisters and their power-driven, cantankerous father made a big splash in the U.K. and will likely do the same here.
