Lesley Lokko

Sundowners

Take four friends:

Rianne is beautiful, wealthy and thoroughly spoilt, she has the whole world at her feet, but is about to risk everything...

Gabrielle is intelligent, loyal and always worrying about everyone else. Now it's time for her to start looking after No 1...

Nathalie is petite, pretty and has a shrewd eye for business; she uses work to help her forget the one man she can't have...

Charmaine is voluptuous, flirty and outrageous. She knows all about the good life but needs to find someone to pay for it...

'With its Tequila Sunrise-coloured cover, this seems to promise some sort of antidote to the misery of dank winter evenings... agreeably glamorous and page-turning.' Daily Mail

'A very 21st-century blockbuster, this has all the classic elements – nail-biting narrative, absorbing relationships, glamorous locations – with an extra shot of intelligence.' Cosmopolitan

'Women's popular fiction in particular has been ploughing a rather miserable, self-deprecating, stuck-in-a-Clapham-bedsit-waiting-for-Mr-Right furrow, full of garlic-breathed commuters, lecherous post boys and hectoring mothers... So how refreshing it is to read a novel where Glamour with a capital 'G' is the entire raison d'etre. At £9.99 a shot, it represents the most fun for under a tenner that I've come across this year... Lesley Lokko is a new voice, as they say, in women's fiction and this is her first novel. I'm looking forward to the next one already.' Wendy Holden in the Sunday Express

'This is an absolute treat of a read set in the uber-chic worlds of modelling, politics and international corporations and set against the glamorous backdrops of London, Los Angeles, Johannesburg and Martinique. If this sexy and intelligent debut is anything to go by, Lesley Lokko is set to be a big thing in contemporary lit.' Glasgow Herald

First published in the UK by Orion, 2004