The Party

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I liked that phrase, because Joan is who I turn to at the hinges of my own personal history. She has journeyed with me through it all with endless reserves of compassion and kindness. I feel so grateful that the darkest point in my life brought me here, to one of the brightest friendships.

Martin Gilmour proviene de un entorno desfavorecido, pero gracias a su amistad con Ben Fitzmaurice tiene un pie dentro de un mundo donde el dinero y el poder ancestrales fluyen entre familias con apellidos sonoros. Martin queda hechizado por Ben y su entorno, y confiesa: Martin Gilmour is an outsider. When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School, he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent. But then he meets the dazzling, popular and wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice, and gains admission to an exclusive world. Soon Martin is enjoying tennis parties and Easter egg hunts at the Fitzmaurice family's estate, as Ben becomes the brother he never had. The night of the party- What happened at that party? The tension at this party is nearly unbearable. There is a lot going on here. The characterizations are very well done, and the dialogue is razor sharp.I practically murdered this book in an evening I loved it so much. THE PARTY is a terrifying, hilarious, brilliantly written original with a wit to die for."— Phoebe Waller-Bridge, creator and star of Fleabag Lucy is a devoted wife to Martin, even as she knows she'll always be second best to his sacred friendship. When Ben throws a lavish 40th birthday party as his new palatial country home, Martin and Lucy attend, mixing with the very upper echelons of London society. Craig, Amanda (27 May 2015). "Paradise City, review: 'elegant and sprightly' ". The Telegraph . Retrieved 20 February 2021.

But why, the next morning, is Martin in a police station being interviewed about the events of last night? Why is Lucy being forced to answer questions about his husband and his past? What exactly happened at the party? And what has bound these two very different men together for so many years?Martin, qué estúpido eres-, oigo decir a mi madre. Siempre se te olvida quién está al mando. Siempre te crees que eres mejor de lo que en realidad eres." En cualquier caso, es un libro estupendo y espero que traduzcan al castellano más libros de la autora. Yo me los apuntaré inmediatamente. I was in hospital over the weekend. When I was discharged, it felt as though I were viewing the world through the bottom of an emptied pint glass. The horizon was distorted. Noises were muted. My marriage started to disintegrate. Seeing babies being pushed along the street in buggies caused me a stab of psychic pain. La novela es breve, está bien escrita (aunque muy mal traducida) y se lee bien; ofrece una buena descripción de ambientes y personajes sociales y un protagonista interesante, que es el atormentado Martin Gilmour. Sin embargo, la trama me ha resultado algo previsible y algunos de los personajes, por ejemplo la familia Fitzmaurice, un poco tópicos. Hay exceso de obviedades que no añaden mucho a la historia:

Katsoulis, Melissa (23 January 2011). "Scissors, Paper, Stone by Elizabeth Day: review". The Telegraph . Retrieved 20 February 2021.

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Elizabeth Day (born 10 November 1978) is an English novelist, journalist and broadcaster. She was a feature writer for The Observer from 2007 to 2016, and wrote for You magazine. Day has written six books, and is also the host of the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day.

A gripping story of betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment. The Fitzmaurice family is painted like many well-worn old money types, giving them an air of power and entitlement that appears unshakeable. Upon my first reflections, I thought the author may have gone a little overboard with her depictions of grand wealth, depending too heavily on stereotypes, coming dangerously close to turning the family into caricatures. But, on second thought, they may have been predictable cardboard figures most of the time, but, they played their roles chillingly well.The friendship between Martin and Ben allows for much thought from its readers —they were so different. They both got something out of their unbalance - friendship .....but readers will think about them (and their wives) intensely. As the train pressed on, I realised that my life was in the process of taking a different direction, plotted according to a new constellation. Because, although I didn't know it yet, I was about to meet Ben and nothing would ever be the same again. It’s such a unique friendship that when it came to writing my new book, Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict, I knew I had to include it. Joan has taught me so much about life, but also about what true friendship really is. It doesn’t matter that we live thousands of miles apart, or that we are separated by two decades, or that sometimes we will go months without speaking. Her friendship is offered without obligation or expectation. We offer each other generosity of spirit, no matter the circumstances. I always know she will think the best of me, and there’s a beauty to that when so many friendships become dulled by a sense of misplaced duty. Not only do we get a compelling storytelling device with the main protagonist in their current challenging positions, we also have them both being possibly unreliable and biassed narrators! Day, a very good writer, does a superb job differentiating between the main voices in this story and taking us along from two distinct viewpoints. A book that is pretty hard on privilege (nice one!) and mayhaps not really give them any substance? A book, that once I started, I just had to know what happened at that party. Do we find out? You'll have to read it and see yourself :). 8 out of 12 for this innovative psychological mystery thriller.