The Party

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If you can remove your ego from a process, then there really isn't any difference between success and failure. What might have been a mere tale of an unrequited love turns into an exploration of class differences, the impossible disparity between the social strata, the desperation it produces and the abyss at the end of that road.

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Sin embargo, en esta fiesta ocurre algo que obligará a los personajes que forman parte de esta historia a revisar todo un pasado de amistad entre Ben y Martin y la autora decide hacerlo bajo varios puntos de vista paralelos y diferentes: el punto de vista de Martin revisando su pasado desde que conoce a Ben, los diarios de Lucy Gilmour, la esposa de Martin, el interrogatorio a Martin en la comisaria de policia y finalmente la fiesta en si que es donde reside de alguna forma la culminación de todo. The wedding binder was a cultural trope that repeated itself again and again on screen in the romantic comedies of the ’80s and ’90s. The biggest difference for me was how Patricia Highsmith was able to make Ripley into a sympathetic character, to the point that readers find themselves rooting for him. Everything changes when he impresses golden boy Ben Fitzmaurice and the two quickly become best friends, so inseparable that Martin spends summers with Ben's family and, eventually, they head to the same Cambridge college together.Martin lacks the easy charm of his fictional predecessors, exuding, rather, an unnerving creepiness. Lucy’s journals- which gives us a look at her marriage to Martin and the way she sees Ben and Serena, her personal disappointments and unwavering loyalty to Martin, even though he certainly tests her limits.

The Party — Elizabeth Day

Si papá y yo nos preocupamos, nunca fue porque no tengamos tiempo para ti o porque no te queramos muchísimo. Martin's invited, but he's chagrined that he and his wife, Lucy, have had to make do with a Premier Inn hotel room rather than being asked to stay at the Fitzmaurices' sprawling manor. But, on second thought, they may have been predictable cardboard figures most of the time, but, they played their roles chillingly well. Day attended Methodist College in Belfast and Malvern St James Girls' School in Worcestershire, before going on to obtain a double first in History from Queens' College, Cambridge. Ripley, The Secret History and Brideshead Revisited got together and had a beautiful, twisted child.Because, although I didn’t know it yet, I was about to meet Ben and nothing would ever be the same again.

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We are treated to scenes from the birthday party as well as flashbacks to Ben and Martin's past and an interview currently taking place at the police station. From that vantage point of fragile optimism, we first planned our wedding for December 2020 at our favourite hotel, The Pig in Combe, Devon.A gripping story of obsession and betrayal, privilege and hypocrisy, set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment. Beginning with Martin being interviewed by the police concerning an undisclosed incident at Ben's glittering, celebrity laden 40th birthday party, the gradual unfolding of this almost thirty year friendship had me completely engaged.