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SLY FOX
Fanfair
SLY FOX
SLY FOX
The dubious lineage of Cath Fox, buccaneering heroine of Nicholas Coleridge's seventh novel, The Adventuress, out this month from Thomas Dunne, goes right back to John Cleland's Fanny Hill and Thackeray's Becky Sharp. But her rise, through bedrooms and boardrooms, from a menial job in a boarding school to the apex of society, is a completely recognizable story of modern Britain. Writing with wicked brio, the author, who is president ofConde Nast International and a great observer and mimic, remains on just the right side of the line marked "off-color," for it's fair to say the end is not the novel's only climax.
HENRY PORTER
