Ghastly Business - Softcover

Louise Levene is the author of A Vision of Loveliness, a BBC Book at Bedtime. She is a columnist at the Sunday Telegraph, and lives in London with her husband and two children.

She writes with such energy and panache that I found myself screaming with laughter ... Her characters are a delight [and] she gets the period beautifully right, so that one is all the time aware of the serious intent behind all the gruesome fun * Barbara Trapido * Both riveting and deliciously funny, thanks to Louise Levene's smart one liners and crisp characterisation ... captures beautifully a prurient, know-your-place society ... Levene's prose is so fresh and enjoyable that you can't help reading snippets out loud * Sunday Telegraph * Levene is a gifted writer with a cinematic way with words ... Her other trademark is a dark and wickedly observational wit * Sunday Express * Sparkly as a Babycham, dry as a Twiglet, and honest as a tinned pie - Janey James is the perfect hilarious, sexy, rude and clear-eyed guide to swinging London. I feel like I've been out on the tiles with her all night - and I'd happily do it all again * Helen Cross on A Vision of Loveliness * A text book on the late fifties and early sixties reality ... fascinating * Mary Quant on A Vision of Loveliness * I loved this book. It wonderfully evokes the essence of the 1960s * Joan Collins on A Vision of Loveliness *