Seduction (Kate Forster, Michael Joseph)

Kitty works for glamorous movie star Willow, as her nanny. Willow is married to dead-beat-dad/rock star Kerr. As Willow begins to fall from grace Kitty offers her shelter at Kitty’s crumbling ancestral country estate ‘Middlemist’. Enter stage left Merrit—Kitty’s celebrity gardener brother. The plot then thickens as Willow offers ‘Middlemist’ a lifeline when she convinces the director of her comeback movie to use the house as a location. Seduction is a rollicking holiday read. With settings from London to LA, Cannes to Byron Bay, it’s all movie stars, rock stars, film directors and PR experts contrasted with ‘salt of the earth’ Kitty and Merrit and their everyday problems. It is fun and lightweight with likeable (although not particularly believable) characters and lush description. Promoted as ‘fantastically sexy’ (although fans of ‘Fifty Shades’ will find it tame in comparison), Seduction is being positioned alongside Tilly Bragshawe and Wendy Holden. It is a fun holiday read but one to pass on or leave at the holiday house rather than risking excess baggage fees for.

Rachel Wilson is a Melbourne-based media academic and former bookseller

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