Adultery for Beginners
When the perfect wife meets the perfect lover…
When the Freeman family return to England after life abroad, Neil settles easily but Isabel struggles to feel at home in suburbia. Looking for something beyond the label of ‘wife and mother’ she gets a job working for the disorganised – but dangerously attractive – Patrick. They start an intense relationship which boosts Isabel’s self-esteem but adds to the guilt she already feels as a working mother.
But does Isabel know her husband as well as she thinks she does? And does her new friend Justine have her best interests at heart or is she working to a different agenda? And Isabel herself is no longer sure she can tell the difference between lust and love, or is it becoming obsession? Soon she is thrown into a whirl of conflicting loyalties and desires at the heart of which lies the agonising question: can an adulterous wife be a good mother?
Adultery for Beginners was shortlisted for the 2003 Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writer’s Award and is modern, witty and incredibly realistic look at being a wife, working mother and lover. It is the perfect ‘curl up with’ novel for any woman who has wondered ‘what if’ with an attractive stranger.
UK Paperback ISBN: 0340829303 Coronet 2004
UK Hardback ISBN: 034082929X Hodder and Stoughton 2000
USA Paperback ISBN 0312337744 St Martin’s Griffin 2005
When the perfect wife meets the perfect lover…
When the Freeman family return to England after life abroad, Neil settles easily but Isabel struggles to feel at home in suburbia. Looking for something beyond the label of ‘wife and mother’ she gets a job working for the disorganised – but dangerously attractive – Patrick. They start an intense relationship which boosts Isabel’s self-esteem but adds to the guilt she already feels as a working mother.
But does Isabel know her husband as well as she thinks she does? And does her new friend Justine have her best interests at heart or is she working to a different agenda? And Isabel herself is no longer sure she can tell the difference between lust and love, or is it becoming obsession? Soon she is thrown into a whirl of conflicting loyalties and desires at the heart of which lies the agonising question: can an adulterous wife be a good mother?
Adultery for Beginners was shortlisted for the 2003 Romantic Novelists’ Association New Writer’s Award and is modern, witty and incredibly realistic look at being a wife, working mother and lover. It is the perfect ‘curl up with’ novel for any woman who has wondered ‘what if’ with an attractive stranger.
UK Paperback ISBN: 0340829303 Coronet 2004
UK Hardback ISBN: 034082929X Hodder and Stoughton 2000
USA Paperback ISBN 0312337744 St Martin’s Griffin 2005