Fatal Gift

If you enjoyed the powerful atmosphere of Fitzgerald''s The Great Gatsby you may just have an inkling of the smoothly professional efficacy of Alec Waugh''s The Fatal Gift. First published in 1973, this novel breathes the values and attitudes of the early decades of the 20th century.

Raymond Peronne has wealth, is bright, is devastatingly attractive to women: his fatal gift. Second son of a barone...