Swan Song

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott Hutchinson €15.99

Martini-soaked Manhattan lunches, gleaming private jets, yachts bobbing on the emerald Med: it’s against such seductive backdrops that debut novelist Greenberg-Jephcott imagines Truman Capote wooing the high-society dames he dubbed his ‘swans’. One after another they spill their secrets, never imagining he will spin them into a vengeful roman à clef that’s destined to ice him out of their world. Interwoven with their tales of power, money and sex is a moving account of Capote’s own giddy, talent-fuelled ascent and the selfdestructive plummet that follows.