Other People's Marriages
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0688129625 / Publisher: William Morrow & Co, May 1994
When a young widow returns to her hometown and begins an affair with a married man, her affair ignites a series of infidelities among five seemingly happy couples
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When seductive young widow Nina Cort returns to her hometown to put the past behind her, a chance encounter with a childhood friend opens the door to a circle of five very close, seemingly happily married couples. They are Andrew and Janice Frost, forever giving parties; rich and successful Darcy Clegg and Hannah, his sexy young wife; Vicky and Gordon Ransome, expecting their third child; libidinous Jimmy Rose and Star, his enigmatic wife; and Michael Wickham, married to Marcelle, a woman as complex as her famous five-course meals.To Nina, they represent everything that she has lost: love, safety, children, companionship. But then she is drawn to one of the men, and their passionate affair ignites a series of infidelities that reveals the cracks beneath the apparently smooth surfaces of these marriages. Over the course of a year, each pair is forced to renegotiate the terms of their relationship. No one emerges unscathed or unchanged. Nina herself is in for a shock: The marriage that she mourns, that she saw as perfect, was flawed.Author Rosie Thomas's unerring eye shines a powerful spotlight on both the mundane and extraordinary moments that make up domestic life. Though the vulnerability of relationships is exposed, so, too, are the strengths of the marriage bonds, and of the bonds of friendship among women. Other People's Marriages is a powerful portrait of the vagaries of attraction, friendship, and love.
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