A group of British tourists set out from a congested Heathrow to their package holiday. Hawaii, and more particularly the high-rise tourist ghetto of Waikiki, is the stage on which the fortunes of this range of characters cross and occasionally collide. The author also wrote Nice Work.
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Review:
"Extremely funny and sharply perceptive" (Evening Standard)
"The poignant personal relations and the Hawaiian way of life are recorded with the sardonic perception of a latter-day Evelyn Waugh" (Spectator)
"Further proof that Lodge is master of subtle scintillating satire" (Daily Mail)