My new novel, High Time, is not a sequel to my last, House of Trelawney, but many of the characters reappear. It’s a satirical novel set against a backdrop of high finance and low morals. When we meet our heroine, Ayesha, aged twenty-five, she is the beautiful, pampered wife of a stratospherically successful short seller, Sir Thomlinson Sleet.
Overnight and unexpectedly, the trappings and edifice of her world collapse: she has become just another
