Gloria! Gloria! - Gowans, Glyn
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It's 1997, and Britain's Goblin Soap heiress, Caroline Weetwood, an introverted history undergraduate, is about to depart for a summer of solitary research on Formentera, a peaceful Mediterranean island. Chaos erupts, however, when her secret schooldays penfriend, American heiress Misty Start, materialises for the weekend at the Weetwoods' gloomy mansion. Caroline is frosty towards this beautiful dynamic Texan who's just abandoned Harvard; James, Caroline's handsome but reclusive brother, is infatuated; crusty Lord Weetwood, their distant father, is inexplicably shocked by Misty's acquaintance…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
It's 1997, and Britain's Goblin Soap heiress, Caroline Weetwood, an introverted history undergraduate, is about to depart for a summer of solitary research on Formentera, a peaceful Mediterranean island. Chaos erupts, however, when her secret schooldays penfriend, American heiress Misty Start, materialises for the weekend at the Weetwoods' gloomy mansion. Caroline is frosty towards this beautiful dynamic Texan who's just abandoned Harvard; James, Caroline's handsome but reclusive brother, is infatuated; crusty Lord Weetwood, their distant father, is inexplicably shocked by Misty's acquaintance with Caroline. And then, on Monday, when backpacking Misty flies to Paris, her tycoon father, Sonny Start, a cool forty-year-old leading a troubled double life, accuses Goblin of shocking industrial espionage. Isolated on magical Formentera, Caroline fights a losing battle to resist the island's seduction. But within days of a traumatised Misty suddenly turning up at her remote villa, animal rights activists contact Lord Weetwood and Sonny, demanding ransoms for their kidnapped daughters. When the mutually suspicious fathers follow lovesick James to Formentera, dramatic events swiftly transform all their arid lives.
Autorenporträt
Glyn Gowans was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and read Law at Durham University. He joined a major UK law firm, qualified as a solicitor, and specialised in intellectual property. After nineteen years with the firm, he took early retirement to write, moving to Bordeaux. Two years later, a finca in the Mallorcan countryside became his home, an ideal location to complete his first novel, Gloria! Gloria!. Bordeaux's magic has inspired a second novel, Cut From The Same Cloth, in which fraud and treachery underlie the transformation of an obscure Bordeaux vineyard into a megastar. And Glyn's eleven years in Mallorca have generated a third satire, Infernal Paradise, which tackles the mounting frictions between the Mallorcans and the thousands of Europeans 'colonising' their island. Violence finally erupts, provoking an international crisis. Both books will be published shortly. After returning to the UK, and having undertaken extensive research, Glyn has also written a biography of Prince George, Duke of Kent, who died in an air crash in 1942 while serving in the RAF.