Fabulous Time - Hardcover

FABULOUS TIME is a brilliant comedy of manners set in the English summer of 1968. The swinging sixties have largely passed Constance Reason by as she lives out her twilight years in the Sussex countryside. But her sedate life is turned upside down when her nephew, Sandy, turns up out of the blue with his boyfriend Ray. They're joined by Iseult, Sandy's unworldly cousin (who has an ill-judged crush on him) and his melodramatic Aunt Leonora - once a leading light of the West End stage. Suddenly,there's a crowd of them - and that's before Nick, a famous pop singer dripping with bohemian decadence appears on the scene. Everybody's having the time of their lives. The question is - will all of them live to tell the tale?

Christina Koning was born in Kuala Belait, British Borneo, and spent her early childhood in Venezuela and Jamaica. Currently she reviews fiction for The Times as well as writing travel pieces. Both her previous novels published by Penguin, A MILD SUICIDE (1992) and UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (1998) received wide-spread critical acclaim, and in 1999 UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY won the Encore Award.