Several Deceptions Book

This is a collection of four novellas all with the theme of deception or self-deception. Each of the tales pokes a comedic poke at human vanity.

In the first story, Simone Strachey employs a plain secretary "Dreary Dora" to catalogue his father's memorabilia to sell to the Sunday Times. He tries to deceive the paper by reinventing Dora into someone else and the deception backfires. In "Law and Order" twin brothers studying law fall under the spell of their tutor Professor van Aldegonde, and in "The Colonel and Judy O'Grady", we hear the story of a young Irish woman in an exiled Tibetan Buddhist community in Northern Ireland. In the final story, Oliver an out of work artist full of cynicism and alcohol leads his friends on an excursion to steal a painting.

Just not my cup of tea!