It's hard to get into, but gets better. I'm not a big fan of this author after reading this, so I probably won't get another one of her books.
wonderful british author
all her books are great
all her books are great
Julia Hunter and Kate Bain he, it seems, each found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. The immaculate Julia organises her husband Hugh, a television personality, with the same efficiency with which she runs their lovely home and cherubic twins. Kate has lived with James Mallow, a retired teacher, for eight years, and although she refuses to marry him she is apparently devoted to him.
But the age differences cannot be ignored forever, and when the eccentric and fiercely independent elderly spinster Miss Beatrice Bachelor enters their lives--after James, absent-mindedly driving without his spectacles through the dark and rainy Oxford streets, iknocks her off her bicycle--a chain of events is set off in which many suppressed discontents and frustrations emerge. Kate begins to seek out friends her own age, Julia's career zooms, while her husband's is in decline. Some new changes are coming.
But the age differences cannot be ignored forever, and when the eccentric and fiercely independent elderly spinster Miss Beatrice Bachelor enters their lives--after James, absent-mindedly driving without his spectacles through the dark and rainy Oxford streets, iknocks her off her bicycle--a chain of events is set off in which many suppressed discontents and frustrations emerge. Kate begins to seek out friends her own age, Julia's career zooms, while her husband's is in decline. Some new changes are coming.
I enjoyed this twist on the May-December romance with a look at these relationships down the line. Now in their sixties, the older men in this book at looking back at their lives and relationships and thinking about where they are.
I enjoyed the secondary characters very much and how they interacted and influenced the lives of these couples. Not what I expected, and sweet.
from the back:
"Popular Brithish TV personality Hugh Hunter has begun feeling resentful toward his much younger, seemingly perfect wife, Julia. For while his own star is on the wane, Julia's is rapidly ascending. James Mallow, a teacherm has shared eight blissful years with Kate Bain, his junior by a good quarter century. But his devoted longtime partner appears restless these days.
Then a freak rush hour accident knocks a fiercely independent spinster from her bicycle-an event that will have a profound and wildly unanticipated impact on two unothodox unions"
I enjoyed the secondary characters very much and how they interacted and influenced the lives of these couples. Not what I expected, and sweet.
from the back:
"Popular Brithish TV personality Hugh Hunter has begun feeling resentful toward his much younger, seemingly perfect wife, Julia. For while his own star is on the wane, Julia's is rapidly ascending. James Mallow, a teacherm has shared eight blissful years with Kate Bain, his junior by a good quarter century. But his devoted longtime partner appears restless these days.
Then a freak rush hour accident knocks a fiercely independent spinster from her bicycle-an event that will have a profound and wildly unanticipated impact on two unothodox unions"
Hilarious British comedy that compares two marriages in which aging, waning husbands contend with the ascent and the restlessness of their much younger wives.
