The Buddha of Brewer Street (1998)
“And probably would be next Monday too, since the Sunday tabloid had promised to publish ‘more exotic antics and stunning images of the Honourable and Upright Member for Coalbridge’. Bloody photographs! They’d been taken just for fun. A bit of a turn-on. Nothing more than a few Polaroids to perk him up. And on his mother’s grave he’d have sworn that only a mental patient would allow them to be published. He had reckoned without the publicity-seeking out-of-work actress who also featured in them.... Limping braced his shoulders and continued his uneasy progress around the Central Lobby of the House of Commons, lips set in what he hoped was defiant form as his eyes searched for colleagues who might engage him in conversation for longer than ten seconds. Hell, he was sure they would understand. Why, could’ve happened to anyone.
Not quite anyone, Goodfellowe thought. To have conducted an affair with a snap-happy actress born three years after your own wedding was careless. To have put the young woman on public display at one of the Prime Minister’s receptions at Chequers was crass.MoreLess
Not quite anyone, Goodfellowe thought. To have conducted an affair with a snap-happy actress born three years after your own wedding was careless. To have put the young woman on public display at one of the Prime Minister’s receptions at Chequers was crass.MoreLess
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