The Edge of Pleasure - by Philippa Stockley (Paperback)

About the Book

Gilver Memmer is an enormously gifted painter, but profoundly self-involved. His creative gifts cannot save him from sliding inexorably toward oblivion. Into his life come two women: one who wants to push him into the grave he has been digging for himself and another who just might save him from it.

Book Synopsis

Gilver Memmer is running short of time. He is an enormously gifted painter, staggeringly good-looking, and profoundly self-involved, a cross between every woman's dream and every woman's worst nightmare. Great though his creative gifts may be, they cannot save him from dissolution. No longer the London art scene's wunderkind, he is getting by on the fumes of his former luck and sliding inexorably-though with a certain self-destructive elegance-toward oblivion. Into Gilver's life come two women: one who wants to push him into the grave he has been digging for himself and another who just might save him from it.

From the Back Cover

Gilver Memmer is running out of time. A fiercely gifted artist, he is staggeringly good-looking and profoundly self-involved--a cross between every woman's fantasy and every woman s worst nightmare. His creative genius cannot save him from dissolution, however. No longer the London art scene's wunderkind, as the novel opens he is getting by on the fumes of his former success, sliding inexorably though with self-destructive elegance toward oblivion. Into Gilver's life come two women: one who wants to push him into the grave he has been digging for himself and the other who might just pull him back from the brink.
A Sunday Times (London) Book of the Year
"There is much to enjoy in Stockley's sly, tart mix of sex, painting and mischance, confected with a naughty, sophisticated glitter."--Daily Mail (London)
"Stockley loves all things exotic and stylish and lingers over her nastier characters with relish . . . A vividly sensual novel, packed with colors and scents and textures."--Evening Standard (London)
Praise for A FACTORY OF CUNNING
"Even if you've never fantasized about Jane Austen in leather, you'll get a kick out of A Factory of Cunning . . . The pages of this unscrupulous story are lined with lace, silk and muslin--all of it stitched together in a fabric of shimmering deceit."--The Washington Post Book World

"Deliciously wicked . . . Stockley is such a clever writer that somehow the relevance of her naughty historical novel peeks through."--Chicago Sun-Times

PHILIPPA STOCKLEY is the author of A Factory of Cunning. A deputy editor at the Evening Standard, she lives in London.
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Review Quotes

UK PRAISE FOR THE EDGE OF PLEASURE
"There is much to enjoy in Stockley's sly, tart mix of sex, painting and mischance, confected with a naughty, sophisticated glitter."
-DAILY MAIL

"Confident, assured and highly entertaining . . . A vividly sensual novel."-EVENING STANDARD