A review by mazza57
High Society by Ben Elton

3.0

Ben Elton has produced a complex narrative with an interesting style. There are no clear chapters and we are carried through the book via the multiple narratives of the main characters. MP Peter Paget has won the lottery to present this parliamentary sessions Private members bill and has chosen to focus on the legalisation of all drugs. We meet his attractive ministerial secretary, journalists and a variety of drug users as Elton draws together the multiple narrative lines. The characters were all flawed and we see all those flaws as the book progresses. Elton does a good job of making the reader like or loathe his characters and sometimes my opinions changed. My main problem would be that there was some repetition and the whole thing just seemed a little lengthy to me