Striking Poses

When you're burdened with the name of a goddess and your mother's a flamboyant actress, the last thing you want is a career in the limelight.

So Aphrodite Delaney opts for a job backstage, grafting as a stylist on cling film commercials, a forlorn Cinderella with no invite to the ball until – ping! – the handsome prince of Irish fashion, Troy MacNally, appears centre stage.

Suddenly this Cinderella is snowed under with fairy-tale threads and invites to the ball – and the spotlight s right in her face. But there are big bad wolves and spiteful pixies lurking in the dark beyond.

Pitted against the bitchiest of witches, Aphrodite develops a rare flair for wickedness herself. . .

From the author of the number one bestselling The Blue Hour comes a modern-day fairy story – a tale of love,sex, revenge and intrigue set in the glittering demi-monde of the Irish fashion world.

About the Author

Kate Thompson was born in Belfast. She came to Dublin to study French and English and had a successful career as an actress and voice-over artist before ditching the day job to write full-time. Her novels, It Means Mischief, More Mischief, Going Down, The Blue Hour (shortlisted for the Parker award in 2003), Striking Poses, A Perfect Life, Living the Dream and Sex, Lies and Fairytales, have been widely translated. Kate has had a ninth novel - Hard to Choos - published under her pen-name Pixie Pirelli. She divides her time between Dublin and the West of Ireland, is happily married with one daughter.