Richard Beasley - Hell Has Harbour Views

A couple of people have mentioned this lately, so I thought I'd give it a go - and, now that I'm a corporate lawyer and all (or, at least, well on that way), it seemed probable that I'd get at least some knowing smiles out of a satire of the lifestyle. But in fact it left me a bit cold, and I only got about halfway through the novel before deciding that there were better ways of spending my time than finishing it. Somehow, it just wasn't quite funny or engaging enough. The prickling of a guilty conscience on my part? Nah - I'm not wired like that. Hell Has Harbour Views has no pretensions to literary merit, and it's not successful as pure entertainment either, is all.