I just feel better now Sox is here. It feels like our hearts are connected - I love him so much. TobyWhen Toby Turner was excluded from school for the third time for hitting and kicking his teachers, his family hit rock bottom.
It’s 2008 and the Global Financial Crisis is upon the World … The Establishment turns a blind eye as banks shuffle toxic financial packages around the system to unsuspecting victims…A hedge fund manager has just placed the biggest bet of his investment career. Market manipulation is suspected, but can he discover who is trying to destroy him before it’s too late?A hard-working Mexican couple are fighting foreclosure to save their house in San Francisco.In London, a banker discovers his employer is about to embezzle assets from his brother’s property business.And, a rising star of British politics is being blackmailed by an ex-professional footballer. When the former player is murdered as well, the politician and his wife become key suspects.Pass the Parcel is a financial thriller that explores the human psychology around financial decisions and how the lives of a group of people were changed beyond recognition by the financial crash.
This is a story about a daughter's search for the truth and her struggle against the silent misogyny within her family. In the months leading up to the Global Financial Crisis, Lottie Sacramento is about to marry her fiancé Dan. She would consider herself one of life's lucky ones. Working for her uncle's business in the gilded world of European property fund management, Celestial has an investment track record to die for. Unfortunately, her fiancé does just that - in mysterious circumstances on a business trip to Frankfurt - and her world is thrown into turmoil. As the financial crisis unfolds and Lottie searches for the truth about Dan and Celestial, she begins to unravel a series of dark family secrets.