Rescue Me
By (Author) Christopher Hart
Faber & Faber
Faber & Faber
1st July 2005
Main
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
256
Width 126mm, Height 197mm, Spine 18mm
185g
Having lost his job following a near-fatal PR stunt involving a television weather girl and a hot air balloon, Daniel is in need of a career change. After stumbling across an advert for gentleman gigolos at the back of a magazine, a lucrative and highly embarrassing career beckons, until one day he is summoned to an appointment in Mayfair, and his life veers off course for ever...
'Smart and smooth... A wry, sophisticated look at what modern men and women want.' Esquire 'This quick-witted and enjoyable sentimental love-story... has great pace, great comic set-pieces... to be highly recommended.' Independent
Born in Lancashire in 1965, Christopher Hart moved to Cheltenham aged seven. He attended Cheltenham College and left with 'three awful A-levels'. In 1986 he went to Oxford Brookes University where he studied English and Art History, and then on to Birkbeck College in London, where he gained a PhD on W.B. Yeats.He is literary editor of the Erotic Review and freelances for the Literary Review, The Bookseller, Guardian and the Daily Telegraph.Christopher Hart's first novel, The Harvest, won huge acclaim on publication in 1999. His second novel, Rescue Me, was published by Faber in June 2001. He is currently at work on his third novel.