"[A] hilarious page-turner…Weldon's diabolically clever satire of greed, fashion, sex, and age is smart entertainment of the highest order."-Booklist Grace has just been released from prison, where she was sent for trying to run over her ex-husband's new wife with her Jaguar in a supermarket parking lot. It may make things a little awkward when all three of them attend a glittering charity ball in London together… From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, this "piquant social comedy" (New York Daily News) is a tale of passion, spite, romance, and revenge, set in the world of the rich, the stylish, the famous-and the infamous. "Playful, sharp, and funny."-Los Angeles Times "Swift and amusing."-The New York Times

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