High Society (novel)
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| Author | Ben Elton |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Bantam Press |
| Publication date | 7 November 2002 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-552-99995-4 (hardback edition) |
High Society is a novel by the British author Ben Elton. It follows the course of Peter Paget who is a Labour MP who is attempting to legalise all drugs in Britain, as well as exploring the wider effects of the illegal nature of drugs.
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It also follows several other characters:
- Tommy Hanson. Tommy Hanson is Britain's most successful musical artist and became famous after winning Pop Hero (ostensibly a reference to Pop Idol). He is an abuser of several drugs and narrates his story to people at his NA and AA meetings.
- Jessie. Jessie is a seventeen year-old Scottish girl who, after running away from home to London, was coerced into prostitution. The story follows her battle to escape her pimp and her battle against her drug addiction.
- Commander Barry Leman a high ranking police officer who becomes obsessed with a personal quest for justice when a friend of his daughter's is horrifically sexually assaulted (and subsequently commits suicide) as a way of threatening him over his involvement with Peter Paget's campaign
- Samantha Spencer, Paget's beautiful but psychologically unhinged mistress.
- Sonia, a teenage drug mule imprisoned in a Thai jail.
