Dinner Party For Eight

By Paul Stevens

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(4.0 out of 5 stars Laugh Out Loud Funny! November 6, 2012 By SDR Marla Amazon Verified Purchase This book really surprised me. The humor of the situations, both inherent and artificially created, in it had me laughing constantly and loudly. You wouldn't expect it in this setting of upper crust British society or maybe you would and I just wasn't as familiar with that social class as I needed to be to see it coming. These kind of stuffy, proper people have such a variety of personal issues hidden from display underlying their lives that we get to a chance to peek at, some readers may even identify with and such a delicious naughtiness lurking underneath that gets unleashed. The teens who set up the situation are truly little scamps, but I think even they got much more then they expected when they set the situation up and the twists this took along the way even to the end made for some truly delightful reading. I will warn you that sexual romps play a large part in the telling of this story, but most are humorously written, not extremely graphic and are really necessary to advance the story so don't be too put off by hearing that. Without them this book couldn't exist.If you are looking for something quirky and different then give this one a chance. I'm giving it 4 stars...)

Got two hours and want to have some fun?

Dinner Party for Eight scythes a side splitting swathe through a British Upper Class dinner party in Hall House, a newly built mansion on top of a cliff somewhere in Cornwall, England.

There’s Norma Pengrové-Jones, the hostess, who is desperate to climb the social ladder.

There’s Harry her husband, a successful property developer from Australia, who is a rough diamond.

There’s Edith Douglas-Smith who is an expert on the British class system and who has taken the powers of haughtiness to a completely new level.

There’s Samantha Brickley, an occasional vampire actress, with not much upstairs other than a well endowed bosom.

There‘s Professor John Adcock, an erudite Professor of Physics and his sweet wife Jo-Ann.

There’s Major Peter Forsyth, of the Queen’s Lancers, a veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan, with a penchant for Drilling.

There’s Tom Eagle, an expert on Wines, and known as the Eagle.

And in the kitchen, there’s Master Chef Mario Fabiano, and his beautiful assistant Angela.

And lurking in the background are the hostess’s street wise super smart brat son Winston and his pimple squeezing sidekick accomplice Alan who have their own agenda for the dinner party.

Dinner Party for Eight races along at the pace of a laugh-a minute as it delves into the many idiocies of human social mores.

Enjoy!

[Novella - Adult Humor - Adult Satire]

• Language: English
• Publisher: Paul Stevens
• Release date: Mar 1, 2004
• ISBN: 9781301493739

Paul Stevens

There is a favorite line from my novella Dinner Party For Eight in which Angela asks Harry:“What do you think I am?”Harry considered this for a moment. What was she actually?“Well I suppose you are a very beautiful cook.”So if I have to answer the same question what am I actually? I would also need to consider this for a moment. I would like to say I’m an ex astronaut, have more degrees than a thermometer, have competed in the Tour de France without any EPO, surfed Teahupoo in Tahiti and emerged unscathed, sailed round the world, am an ace Alpine skier, am a member of Mensa, have a beauty queen wife and gorgeous kids, and started my own corporation which has listed on NASDAQ. I could go on but like Arnold Schwarzenegger I don’t want to boast.Well to be honest, I have gone some of the way towards all those things. I do have a letter from Wernher von Braun, I do have three degrees in Physics, I have flown in a jet plane (Emirates Air), I do cycle the mega steep hills here where I live but unfortunately can’t get EPO anywhere, I am a keen surfer who has almost managed to break his neck, I am an ocean going skipper and I did own my own yacht though if it was me I wouldn’t sail with me as captain, I do ski but you need to get out of the way, I do have a beautiful wife (though her agreeing to marry me has to be my biggest piece of luck ever) and two great kids, I do have my own software business but no stock exchanges alas and I would like to take the Mensa test but I’m pretty sure I would fail and then I wouldn’t be able to live with that so I would rather rationalize. I live in that sapphire city – Cape Town.