Chilling, repellant, deliberately provocative - The Idol is 'elite trash'
, my first Jackie Collins novel. In the 1980s, every suburban mum’s bedside table housed a copy. Life was pretty awful back then. Grown men would weep on the street carrying P45s in their hands, as unemployment soared. National assets were flogged in a Government bin sale. We were probably all going to die in a nuclear war.
Levinson is fully aware of its trash factor, from Tedros’ repeated floodlit entries to Jocelyn’s mansion , to the gratuitous masturbation scenes. If you don’t get it, he spells it out, with Tedros and Jocelyn sitting down to watch
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