The Bulgari Connection. Fay Weldon
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Название: The Bulgari Connection

Автор: Fay Weldon

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Современная зарубежная литература

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isbn: 9780007390496

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      FAY WELDON

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      The Bulgari Connection

      

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       Also by Fay Weldon

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

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      Doris Dubois is twenty-three years younger than I am. She is slimmer than I am, and more clever. She has a degree in economics, and hosts a TV arts programme. She lives in a big house with a swimming pool at the end of a country lane. It used to be mine. She has servants and a metal security gate which glides open when her little Mercedes draws near. I tried to kill her once, but failed.

      When Doris Dubois comes into a room all heads turn: she has a sunny disposition and perfect teeth. She smiles a lot and most people find themselves returning the smile. If I did not hate her I expect I would quite like her. She is, after all, the nation’s sweetheart. My husband loves her, and can see no fault in her. He buys her jewels.

      The swimming pool is covered, warmed, and flanked by marble tiles and can be used summer and winter. Trees and shrubs in containers have been placed all around the pool area. In photographs – and the press come often to see how Doris Dubois lives – the pool seems to exist in a mountain grotto.

      The water has to be cleaned of leaves more often than any pool of mine ever did. But who’s counting cost?

      Doris Dubois swims in her pool every morning, and twice a week my ex-husband Barley dives in to swim beside her. I have had them watched by detectives. After their swim servants come and offer warmed white towels into which they snuggle with little cries of joy. I have heard these cries on tape, as well as other СКАЧАТЬ