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SEX AND VANITY
by Kevin Kwan (Cornerstone £8.99, 368 pp)
Nineteen-year-old Lucie Tang Churchill has been invited to the wedding of the year a marriage between her childhood friend, Taiwanese heiress Issie Chiu, and an Italian aristocrat, Adolfo De Vecchi, on the island of Capri.
The only downside is that Lucie is chaperoned by her cousin, Charlotte, who is nicknamed ‘Madame Buzzkill’. No sooner have they arrived than Charlotte is complaining vociferously about the lack of a sea view from their luxurious hotel rooms.
She is overheard by a gloriously vulgar fellow guest, Rosemary Zao, who insists that Lucie and Charlotte take over her sea-view suites.
When Lucie Tang Churchill meets George Zao at a lavish wedding in Capri, she can t stand him. She can t stand that he gallantly offers to trade hotel rooms with her so she can have a sea view, that he.
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Sex and Vanity, the half-Chinese, half-old money WASP Lucie Tang Churchill is confronted with (yet another) request to explain her identity. Lucie is in Capri alongside her equally WASPy (but not Chinese) cousin Charlotte when a tour guide mistakes Lucie for a friend rather than a relation.
“Oh? Your cousin?” Paolo glanced reflexively at Lucie in surprise, but Lucie simply smiled. She knew that within the next few seconds, Charlotte would automatically launch into the explanation she had always given since Lucie was a little girl.