Wives and Lovers

Wives and Lovers

A sincereÂ andÂ compassionate novel about the complications of married life,Â andÂ the love, loathing, pain, loyalty, disappointmentsÂ andÂ friendship that grow out of a marriage
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Channel City, California, is a an average coastal town where everyone is doing their best to get byÂ andÂ be respectable, from the sun-grizzled fishermen on the wharf to the perfectly coifed societyÂ wivesÂ to the over-fed gophers who plague every middle-class garden. But in the hot summer of 1954, one unhappy man's extramarital affair turns the community on its head.Â

Hazel Anderson, a dental assistant, is a contentedly divorced forty-something whose ex-husband, George, runs the town's wharf bar. Hazel worries about George, who is smitten with a much younger woman, Ruby, who won't have anything to do with him,Â andÂ Hazel thinks Ruby is hiding secrets of her own. The dentist Hazel assists, Gordon Foster, works hard to support his wifeÂ andÂ three children in their middle-class lifestyle, but he can never satisfy his wife, Elaine, who has always resented being married to a dentist instead of a "real" doctor. All of these relationships become tangled when henpecked Gordon's romantic indiscretion comes to light.Â

Here, in this sweet, sad,Â andÂ incisive literary novel, Margaret Millar accomplishes the same feat as she has with her award-winning crime fiction by offering readers a fascinating snapshot of life as it was, not life as we like to remember it having been.
Country USA
Manufacturer Soho Syndicate
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2015-12-08
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Soho Syndicate
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2015-12-08
Format	Kindle eBook

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