A temp with tempting ankles.
BEATRICE
A fair flautist misused by Rannaldini.
JAMES BENSON
A very smooth private doctor.
BONNY
A Palm Beach polo groupie.
SABINE BOTTOMLEY
Headmistress of Bagley Hall — a less caring beard.
TEDDY BRIMSCOMBE
Larry Lockton’s gardener.
MRS BRIMSCOMBE
His wife.
BUNNY
An ace Gloucestershire vet.
RUPERT CAMPBELL-BLACK
Multi-millionaire owner/ trainer, ex-world show-jumping champion, Mecca for most women.
TAGGIE CAMPBELL-BLACK
His second wife — an angel.
MARCUS CAMPBELL-BLACK
His son — an embryo concert pianist.
TABITHA CAMPBELL-BLACK
His daughter — a teenage tearaway.
SEB AND DOMMIE CARLISLE
The heavenly twins. Vastly brave professional polo players, whose serious wildness has been tempered by the recession.
CHLOE CATFORD
Talented mezzo-soprano and Boris Levitsky’s mistress.
BLUEY CHARTERIS
Rupert Campbell-Black’s first jockey.
LADY CHISLEDEN
An old boot and a pillar of Paradise.
CLIVE
Rannaldini’s sinister black-leather-clad henchman.
MRS COLMAN
David Hawkley’s secretary — nicknamed ‘Mustard’ by the boys because she’s so keen on him.
CAMERON COOK
A talented television termagent.
MISS CRICKLADE
Winner of the home-made wine class at Paradise Church fete for ten years running.
DANNY
One of Rupert Campbell- Black’s stable lads.
DIZZY
Rupert Campbell-Black’s head groom. A glamorous divorcee.
FERDINAND FITZGERALD
Fat Ferdie. Lysander Hawkley’s best friend and minder. Estate agent and fixer who is riding the recession with a cowboy’s skill.
RICKY FRANCE-LYNCH
Polo captain of England.
DAISY FRANCE-LYNCH
His painter wife, a friend of Julia Armstrong.
GERALDINE
Guy Seymour’s London secretary.
GRAYDON GLUCKSTEIN
Chairman of the New World Philharmonic Orchestra.
HELEN GORDON
Rupert Cambell-Black’s first wife.
BOB HAREFIELD
Orchestra manager of the London Met. A saint.
HERMIONE HAREFIELD
His seriously tiresome wife. Rannaldini’s mistress. One of the world’s leading sopranos and an applause junkie.
LITTLE COSMO HAREFIELD
A four-year-old fiend.
LYSANDER HAWKLEY
A hero of our time.
DAVID ‘HATCHET’ HAWKLEY
