From Library Journal
Samantha "Sam" Jones, a London sculptress, revels in the ironies of life. Her recent sale of a colossal mobile to a merchant bank temporarily places her among a group of spoiled rich folk, including an anorexic, a drug-addicted banker's daughter, a hunky corporate financier, and others. Sam's wonderfully sardonic narrative serves as satiric commentary, especially as she and said hunk have their way with each other. Meanwhile, Sam ponders the suspicious import of a security guard's dying words, then investigates a murder involving her sculpture. A topnotch first novel.
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From Kirkus Reviews
You may think you've seen the last word in British bitchiness, but that's because you haven't met Samantha Jones, a Holloway sculptor with an imagination two steps below the gutter, a list of lovers out to here, and a world-class attitude. Sam's career seems poised to take flight when David Stronge, chair of Mowbray Steiner's Art Acquisitions Committee, selects her mobile Floating Planet (though Sam still calls it Thing III) for the bank's dauntingly upscale lobby. But the unveiling is marred by the death of a night watchman, and even though Sam takes what comfort she can from the fiascoin this case, the comfortably comprehensive embraces of dishy Mowbray banker Sebastian Shawa subsequent visit to Mowbray Steiner is even less successful, ending as it does when Floating Planet plummets to earth, crushing beneath it bland Charles de Groot and cutting short Charles's engagement to Belinda Fine, daughter of Mowbray chairman Sir Richard Fine. The suspects, from Belinda's self-absorbed twin Suki to Sir Richard's mistress Genevive Planchet to fair-haired financier Simon Grenville, are a bunch of stiffs, but Sam, a determined outsider who describes Sebastian's combination of good conversation and great sex as ``a total environment,'' jolts them and their fashion mistakes alive with all the subtlety of Dr. Frankenstein. Only one complaint about Henderson's bright debut: Should a girl who brags about having been around the block so many times be quite so shocked at the skeletons she finds in the stiffs' closets? --
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