by Mark Mills (Author)
Blood brothers or sworn enemies? You never forget what the fight was about...
Ben Makepeace has barely thought of Jacob since school. What he remembers is a competitive, manipulative boy, impinging on his life like a cuckoo planted in a nest.
Now Ben is the wrong side of forty with a young son to support and in need of a backer to bankroll his latest film script. A call to meet hedge-fund billionaire Victor Sheldon is promising, but there's a surprise in store - Victor is Jacob, now firmly entrenched in a gilded world of riches and glamour.
History can cast a long shadow and while Ben believes his childhood is well over, he soon discovers the roots of the past dig deep, and some can't let it go.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 464
Publisher: Headline Review
Published: 18 Jul 2013
ISBN 10: 0755392310
ISBN 13: 9780755392315
Book Overview: A startling novel of childhood, secrets and a history that refuses to be buried from the author of the No 1 bestselling THE SAVAGE GARDEN - a must for any fan of William Boyd.