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Mention his name and most people will say, 'Who?' while the rest think for a bit and ask if he wasn't the one who got involved in all that sleaze back whenever it was ...? It's late spring of 1990 and a love affair is flourishing: between Ivor Tesham, a thirty-three year old rising star of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government, and Hebe Furnal, a stunning North London housewife stuck in a dull marriage. What excitement Hebe lacks at home, however, is amply compensated for by the well-bred and intensely attractive Tesham - an ardent womanizer and ambitious politican. On the eve of her twenty-eighth birthday, Tesham decides to give Hebe a present to remember: something far more memorable than, say, the costly string of pearls he's already lavished upon her. Involving a fashionable new practice known as 'adventure sex', a man arranges for his unsuspecting but otherwise willing girlfriend to be snatched from the street, bound and gagged, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue...Set amidst an age of IRA bombings, the first Gulf War, and sleazy politics, "The Birthday Present" is the gripping story of a fall from grace, and of a man who carries within him all the hypocrisy, greed and self-obsession of a troubled era.
 
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Hardback Editions

March 2009 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0307451984Title: The Birthday Present: A Novel
Author(s): Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0-307-45198-4 / 978-0-307-45198-9 (USA edition)
Publisher: Shaye Areheart Books
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August 2008 : Hardback
Cover of ISBN: 0670917613Title: The Birthday Present
Author(s): Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0-670-91761-3 / 978-0-670-91761-7 (USA, AU, or UK edition)
Publisher: Viking
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April 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0141036214Title: The Birthday Present
Author(s): Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0-14-103621-4 / 978-0-14-103621-2 (UK edition)
Publisher: Penguin
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March 2009 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0739328379Title: The Birthday Present: A Novel (Random House Large Print (Cloth/Paper))
Author(s): Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0-7393-2837-9 / 978-0-7393-2837-8 (USA edition)
Publisher: Random House Large Print
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August 2008 : Paperback
Cover of ISBN: 0143170252Title: Birthday Present
Author(s): Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0-14-317025-2 / 978-0-14-317025-9 (UK edition)
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April 2009 : Audio CD
Cover of ISBN: 0141040726Title: The Birthday Present
Author(s): Barbara Vine
ISBN: 0-14-104072-6 / 978-0-14-104072-1 (UK edition)
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