Fame and Fortune

By Frederic Raphael

Success as a novelist and Hollywood screenwriter has brought fame and its pleasures to Adam Morris, whose public cynicism continues to mask his private anguish. He still moves warily amongst his ambitious Cambridge contemporaries, but for them, as for him, success has proved a double-edged sword.

For Adam, a startling sexual encounter, as well as the defection of his son, Tom, to a Christian sect, and the rebellion of his brilliant daughter, Rachel, threaten to capsize his work and his marriage. In Mrs Thatcher’s golden years, money and power can do little to ensure the glittering prizewinners avoid the trip-wires that lace their upward path – or from the violence and death that can shatter their fragile happiness.

Fame and Fortune is the highly entertaining sequel to the bestselling The Glittering Prizes.