It would be an understatement to say that Honor was never the most popular girl growing up. As a matter of fact, on the very rare occasions when she was invited to a porty, Sorcha used to sew cubes of pancetta into the hem of her dress so that at least the family’s dog would play with her.
Not that we’ve ever told her that, of course.
Well, anyway, those days are well and truly gone if the reception she receives in the deportures hall of Dublin Airport is anything to go by. Yeah, no, as head girl of Mount Anville, she’s leading the sixth-year skiing trip to St Moritz, where the 50 girls who submitted the highest bids in a blind auction will be staying in my old man’s villa…