The woman in the lobby / Lee Tulloch.

MODERN FICTION. AUSTRALIAN. On the day her middle-class marriage comes apart at the seams, the normally innocent Violet finds herself in bed with an international tennis star in a luxury hotel room in Melbourne. When the tennis star sends her a first-class ticket to Paris and promises a rendezvous, Violet thinks the world has fallen into her lap. But it is not to be. The tennis star fails to show up, and Violet is left adrift in Paris with little money and no direction. That is until she lands another rich and powerful man, then another and another. Before long Violet has become part of a select group of beautiful women who wander the grand cities of Europe, exchanging sex for high-priced gifts and all-expenses paid sojourns in some of the worlds most extraordinary hotels. Leading her on is Florin, a charismatic gypsy, a man who courts women for a living, who is never quite what he seems, and who is the only one able to distract Violet from her obsessive pursuit of luxury.