Lingerie Tea

by Sylvia Mulholland

Claire and her two female colleagues are used to feeling marginalised at the stuffy Toronto legal practice where all three operate as partners. But they get their chance to take centre stage when a bizarre accident kills off all but one of the male partners and leaves 'the girls' to pick up the pieces. And what a handful those pieces turn out to be: one partner was a bigamist; one a transvestite; one a blackmailer; one a fraud. Sorting out the repercussions will take some doing.As if that weren't enough, Claire has also volunteered to organise an engagement party for the only surviving male partner's fiancee, Anna. The etiquette of such an affair is a social minefield, but the party proves an explosive climax to a difficult year.

295 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[John · Rating 1 out of 5]

Why, why did I finish reading this? Even though nothing else was immediately at hand? I picked it out of the book exchange at work, needing a read, and it looked the best of a bad lot.
While it has some good, if catty parts, around a quarter of the book details what people are wearing, how they tie their ties, and other esoteric sartorial stuff that, I guess, is meaningful to some of the women readers for whom it was clearly written. Guys, stay away from this one. The copy I had went back to the book exchange.

[Karschtl · Rating 1 out of 5]

Vom Klappentext her hatte ich mir irgendwie mehr versprochen. Denn beim Ausmisten der Büros finden die übrig gebliebenen Partner zwar bei jedem der 4 Chefs ein kleines Geheimnis, aber das wars dann auch schon. Man weiß es, und gut ist. Die Geschichte wird bis auf einen Fall nicht wirklich weiter gesponnen...
Die Wäscheparty, als eine Art Junggesellinen-Party gedacht, ist irgendwie auch komisch und bringt zwar einen Abschluß unter die Geschichte, aber wirklich gut fand ich ihn nicht. Vielleicht kann ja jemand mehr mit diesem Buch anfangen als ich...