High Society (novel)

This article is about the 2002 novel. For other uses, see High society (disambiguation).

High Society

Author	Ben Elton
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Bantam Press
Publication date	7 November 2002
Media type	Print (Hardback)
ISBN	0-552-99995-4 (hardback edition)
OCLC	52057873

High Society (2002) is a darkly comic novel by English author Ben Elton. The story focuses on Peter Paget, a Labour Party MP, and his mission to legalise all recreational drugs in the United Kingdom.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

Plot summary

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. His character is possibly inspired by Robbie Williams, whose name is mentioned several times in the novel.
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.
Emily Hilton-Smith, a drug-addicted socialite who publicly renounces drug use and joins Paget's campaign after the events of a night out force her to confront her addiction.
Samantha Spencer, Paget's beautiful but psychologically unhinged mistress.
Sonia, a teenage drug mule imprisoned in a Thai jail.

References

↑ Hutton, Will. "Chasing the dragon". theguardian.com. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
↑ "High Society". amazon.com. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
↑ "High Society". goodreads.com. Retrieved 12 December 2013.
↑ "High Society". waterstones.com. Retrieved 12 December 2013.

External links

High Society (novel) on Open Library at the Internet Archive

Ben Elton

Television	The Young Ones (1982) There's Nothing to Worry About! (1982) Alfresco (1983) Happy Families (1985) Filthy Rich & Catflap (1986) Blackadder II (1986) Blackadder the Third (1987) Blackadder Goes Forth (1989) Ben Elton: The Man from Auntie (1990) Mr. Bean (1990) Stark (1993) The Thin Blue Line (1995) The Ben Elton Show (1998) Blessed (2005) Get a Grip (2007) Ben Elton Live from Planet Earth (2011) The Wright Way (2013)

Theatre	Popcorn (1996) Blast From the Past (1998) The Beautiful Game (1998) We Will Rock You (2002) Love Never Dies (2010)

Novel	Stark (1989) Gridlock (1991) This Other Eden (1993) Popcorn (1996) Blast From the Past (1998) Inconceivable (1999) Dead Famous (2001) High Society (2002) Past Mortem (2004) The First Casualty (2005) Chart Throb (2006) Blind Faith (2007) Time and Time Again (2014)

Film	Maybe Baby (2000)

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