Silk
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- £9.99
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
Money. Sex. Power. Some things are always in fashion.
Christine Fairbrother is a high-powered barrister, the scourge of the divorce courts. Christine has ambitions to become a QC—to "take silk"—after her next big case.
Her talented daughter, Isabelle Cisse, is a design graduate launching herself on the London fashion scene, full of dreams and ambitions—and with a fatal weakness for unsuitable men...
Victoria Crabtree's position as Massimo Rivelli's mistress is precarious. Massimo is the multi-millionaire owner of the House of Rivelli, one of the world's leading manufacturers of couture fashion. However, he shows no sign of wanting to divorce his wife and Victoria's always in danger of being replaced with a younger model. But he's about to discover just what lengths Victoria will go to in order to survive...
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Scheming and backstabbing abound in James's look at the tension-filled, high-stakes world of fashion. After her own nuptials crumble, British divorce lawyer Christine Fairbrother is hoping to rise through to ranks to Queen's Counsel, colloquially known as "taking silk." Christine's daughter, Isabelle Ciss , is struggling to get her fashion designs noticed by the right people, including garment manufacturer Massimo Rivelli. Meanwhile, Victoria Crabtree, Massimo's mistress, plans to use Isabelle and her designs as part of a plot to get Massimo to finally leave his wife. What Victoria doesn't realize is that she will set events in motion that will tie all the characters together. James (Step Sisters) gives readers an entertaining glimpse into the not-so-glamorous, nuts-and-bolts side of fashion, but familiar characters the middle-aged woman beginning to date again after a divorce, the struggling young designer, the unhappy mistress desperate to oust the wife make the book feel more off-the-rack than haute couture.
