"And I'm sure your age helps as well," Simon added cynically. "You're pretty, young, and a prodigy and I'm sure that also helps move sales. You're supremely talented and familiarily exotic, being Irish." He wasn't discounting her talent; he just knew those kinds of people very well. He'd been a prodigy, once, and Mum's theatre friends had fawned on him until early brilliance had given way to simple competence and everyone lost interest.