The Misadventures of Oliver Booth : Life in the Lap of Luxury (Paperback)

from thetometraveller

Poor Oliver Booth. He's big. He's sweaty. He's the proprietor of an antique shop in Palm Beach but his taste is questionable and his antiques are...well... not. He desperately wants to be part of high society but they know an outsider when they see one and he has no hope of breaking in. He can't ...

from UnadornedBook

The Misadventures of Oliver Booth was an amusing tale. I found myself internally chuckling more than once. Mr. Desmond writes knowingly of a world to which few of us are privy. We tromp with him through the high-heeled sidewalks of Palm Beach, its' air conditioned country clubs and sprawling esta...

from Bbexlibris

Oliver Booth craves wealth, acknowledgment and prestige yet he goes about it in all the wrong ways. The more he scams and tries to pry up into the world that he admires the more it detests him and his slyness. He is the arrogant owner of a supposedly high-quality shop filled with "hecho en Mexico...

from tibobi

This book is highly entertaining. Oliver Booth is basically a "wannabe", for lack of a better term. His opinion of himself does not match that of others and it's a constant source of entertainment for the reader. The book takes us through numerous misadventures...most of which take place in Paris...

from ScrapEtta

The book starts out in Palm Beach, with Oliver Booth trying to make himself a bit more important that he really was. He owns an antique store but it's not on the main drag of town, Worth Avenue, so as a result he doesn't see much traffic. (Not that he would anyway-he has reproductions that still ...