A weekend of wild partying goes horribly wrong – Don’t miss Vanessa Raphaely’s debut novel, Plus One
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It would be a weekend of fun, sunshine, champagne and partying. And it was all of those things. Until it wasn’t …

Plus One, the debut novel from Vanessa Raphaely, is out in September from Pan Macmillan!

Plus One transports you to a world of fame, power and glamour in which the gritty reality is just below the surface. Entertaining to the last page! – Anele Mdoda

Lisa Lassiter is the deputy editor on one of the biggest, most successful women’s media brands in the United Kingdom – FILLE magazine and its host of online platforms. Her best friend is Claudia Hemmingway, an up-and-coming actress who is looking to launch her Hollywood career.

Lisa and Claudia move in rich and glamorous circles, and when they have the opportunity to spend a weekend in Mykonos on board a luxury yacht, they jump at the chance. But beneath the shiny veneer of this celebrity-filled world, is a competitive and sordid underbelly, filled with pitfalls and challenges for the unsuspecting.

From LA to Cape Town and the Greek islands to New York, Lisa’s and Claudia’s stories over the years are closely intertwined. Neither can escape the events of the past as they gather momentum and threaten to derail their seemingly perfect lives.

I wrote a book. It’s about the sleazy darker side of celebrity and women’s media, female friendship, ambition, Hollywood. Oh and someone dies. Here’s the link to the early bird deal if you’re keen! https://t.co/6uiPabbLZL and Kindle https://t.co/7fCjDML0nX

— Vanessa Raphaely (@RaphaelyVanessa) August 24, 2018

‘Outside, in the road, behind what looks like some hastily erected barricades, I see a crowd. Television cameras. Lights. Paparazzi. Press photographers. They’ve materialised out of nowhere. What looks like over a hundred locals and tourists are peering into every car leaving this area. Crowding against the car doors, pushing cameras up against the windows. Jostling. Screaming. Shouting. In all my anxiety, hard-nosed journalist that I’m not, during the hours spent shifting around in the plastic seat in the waiting room I had somehow not understood the enormity of this story.’

About the author

Until 2015, Vanessa Raphaely was the long-time editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine in South Africa as well as the editorial director of Associated Media. She lives in Cape Town and her Facebook group, The Village, has nearly 19 000 followers. Plus One is her debut novel.