A Firing Offence - Softcover

Ignatius, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0747276919 ISBN 13: 9780747276913

Publisher: Headline, 1997

Synopsis

From the author of SEX, LIES AND LITIGATION, a contemporary novel set in London. A chic young female lawyer is disturbed to learn she has a stalker and decides to hire a private detective to help her out. However, the detective proves to be more trouble than her stalker, and helps to wreak havoc on her social life. Reissued.

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About the Author

Tyne O'Connell: bestselling British author of 13 novels, published to great acclaim by Headline UK, Bloomsbury USA & numerous international publishing houses. Born into an Irish Catholic family, daughter of a retired spy. Her first bestselling book Sex, Lies & Litigation was pub1996 by Headline. She's spent most of her life in Mayfair London where she brought up two husbands & three children. The area's mentioned in her books. She writes about all things Mayfair: The Restoration, Bluestockings, spies, eccentrics, royals & fashion for numerous publications.   O'Connell was educated by Flemish Sacre-Coeur nuns (born in the 1870-80's) with the expectation that she would marry a diplomat. It was an unusual Victorian upbringing. By 17, she was accomplished in Le Cordon Blue, Croquet, Semaphore, Latin, Needlepoint, Flower Arrangement, Diamond Valuation, Deportment, Millinery & Embassy Dinner Seating. After school she returned to London in a smart tweed suit perfectly prepared for a world that hadn't existed for decades. Her extraordinary life's been featured in TV, documentaries Vogue UK, Ms. USA & most UK broadsheets. The Daily Telegraph UK, hailed her as "A modern day Elinor Glyn - the original It Girl". ELLE UK described her as "The Impossibly glamorous Tyne O'Connell." In 2004, Tyne began writing her bestselling  teen-series, Pulling Princes, Bloomsbury. Based on her three children experiences at single-sex boarding school; the books are set near Windsor Castle in a fictional, exclusive all-girls boarding school close to Princes Wills & Harry's alma mater, Eton College. Narrated by an ordinary American teen, Calypso who discovers Terrible Toffs & Horrible Hon.s' & opens the lid on the antics of royal teens. The books have been described as modern classics, an "up to date version of Angela Brazil's boarding school books of the early 1900's." tyneoconnell.com Twitter @tyneoconnell

Edition details

• Publisher: Headline
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747276919
• ISBN 13: 9780747276913
• Binding: Paperback