Andy Hayes’ hope of escaping his pop star past and maybe even growing up a little collapse when Phil Jessup re-enters his life. Phil, his old band’s narcissistic front man, wants a short cut back from obscurity and wants it quickly, at whatever cost. He introduces Andy to the sinister and destructive world of the Bowring family. Posh, rich would-be musician and obsessive glambler Mark Bowring has everything to play for. His speculator father Richard might be going for broke but Mark’s new young stepmother Emma still wants to have it all – except for the job and the kids. And when Andy finds himself repainting the Bowrings’ house at the exact moment when greed, sloth and thwarted ambition threaten to pull the family apart, it looks like he will make the papers again – this time facing a murder charge.
A cast of social misfits, spoilt delinquents, poules de luxe and eternal adolescents makes Luxury Amnesia an unforgettable contemporary urban thriller.