by TonyParsons (Author)
My Favourite Wife is a book about the men and women of our time -- their struggles, their joys and their secret longings. Above all it is a book about where sex, romance and obsession ends, and where true love begins. Hot shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move with their four-year-old daughter to the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai. It is a place of opportunity and temptation, where fortunes are made and foreign marriages come apart in spectacular fashion. Bill's law firm houses the Holden family in Paradise Mansions -- a luxury apartment block full of 'second wives': beautiful young women like JinJin Li, ex-school teacher, crossword addict, dedicated roller skater and the Holdens' neighbour. After Becca witnesses a near-tragedy, she returns temporarily to London with Holly -- and Bill and JinJin are thrown together. Bill wants to be a better man than the millionaire who keeps JinJin Li as a second wife. Better than any man who cheats. Beccas is his best friend. But in the end, can he give JinJin anything different -- can he give her the love she deserves? And can he love his wife too?
Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 18 Feb 2008
ISBN 10: 0007247656
ISBN 13: 9780007247653
Acclaim for for Tony Parsons:
`Funny, serious, tender and honest...Tony Parsons is writing about the genuine dilemmas of modern life'
Sunday Express
`He takes as his specialist subject contemporary emotional issues which almost every other male reader has ignored' Guardian
`Memorable and poignant - nobody squeezes more genuine emotion from a scene than Tony Parsons' Spectator
Tony Parsons is the author of Man and Boy , winner of the Book of the Year prize. His subsequent novels - One For My Baby, Man and Wife, The Family Way, Stories We Could Tell and My Favourite Wife - were all bestsellers. He lives in London.