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Anne R from Maryland
, September 02, 2008
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The comedy of manners isnât dead; it just needs to be relocated from the tea table to the contemporary equivalent: the workplace. Caro Fraser understands this. In an addictive series, of which this is the second of seven (so far) books, Fraser (a former barrister and daughter of Flashman author George MacDonald Fraser) follows the fortunes of the barristers practicing at 5 Caper Courtâa most apposite address. Chief among them is Leo Davies, a charming, successful lawyer whose sexual tastes, which run to both men and women, have a tendency to land him in hot water from which he nonetheless usually manages to escape. But these are not cynical novels. Leo isnât successful because he is ruthless. Fraser follows him and his fellow barristers, clerks, clients, solicitors, and pupils as they make their way along the tightrope of contemporary middle-class London life, with often hilarious, sometimes poignant, always entertaining results.
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