Businessmen as Lovers

Fun, witty and sun-soaked, this is the inimitable Rosemary Tonks for the poolside.Great friends, Mimi and Caroline, are off on holiday to a beautiful Italian island. There they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of characters including their debonair host and his mistress, a relentless venture capitalist and a villain in the form of the local dentist. There is also Beetle, with whom Mimi is completely and simply in love. As everyone relaxes into island living and the demands of real life drift away, the holiday hijinks culminate in a very Mediterranean prank – the cutting down of the dentist’s prize lemon tree.'Breakneck romantic escapades of young Tonks-like heroines’ Paris Review