Crème Victoria (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798292738954)

Crème Victoria: A Novel

Middle school science teacher Kenny Baines has mastered the art of living small: teaching covalent bonds to teenagers, coaching basketball, and nursing a 2005 Subaru through Vermont winters. He's completely unprepared when a London solicitor calls to say his father-who Kenny thought died thirty years ago-has actually just passed away, leaving behind a cosmetics empire worth 900 million.

The catch? Kenny must battle his half-brother Alistair, a Savile Row-suited sociopath who makes succession look like a nature documentary, for control of Victoria Cosmetics. Winner takes all. Loser gets... nothing.

Blending the heart of "Ted Lasso" with the corporate satire of "Arrested Development," "Crème Victoria" is a wickedly funny exploration of what happens when an ordinary person faces a the possibility of living with extraordinary wealth and chooses to do something genuinely extraordinary with it. It's about brotherhood discovered in the strangest places, friendship found in underground laboratories, and the radical act of knowing exactly who you are in a world determined to name you something else.

For readers who love: Underdog stories with brains, British humor mixed with American optimism, and books that make you laugh while secretly teaching you about life, the universe and everything.