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Marrying the mistress

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An edition of Marrying The Mistress (2000)

Marrying the mistress

1st American ed.
  • 4 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 1 Have read

"Simon Stockdale spells it out for his son Jack: 'Your grandfather is proposing to leave your grandmother to whom he has been married for forty years and marry a woman with whom he has been having an affair for seven years.'".

"'Grando?' marvels Jack. 'Grando wants out and to start again?' What can this mean to a boy in the throes of his first love affair? Or to Simon's wife Carrie who always thought her wronged mother-in-law was one of the most self-pitying women she'd ever met anyway? Filial debts are about to be called in and Carrie doesn't want her husband Simon to pay them. Yet Simon feels a bond of obligation towards his mother which makes him vulnerable - and which no one else can fathom.".

"And what of the mistress - a barrister who has fallen in love with a judge twice her age? What if she isn't just 'His Honour's totty', as one court official labels her. What if, as Simon's gay brother Alan decides, 'She's the real thing. She's a proper person.'"--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Pages
293

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Cover of: Marrying The Mistress
Marrying The Mistress
2006, Bloomsbury
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Marrying the mistress
2001, Black Swan
in English
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Marrying the mistress
2001, McArthur & Company
in English
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Séparation de coeur
March 16, 2000, Pocket
Mass Market Paperback in French
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Marrying the mistress
2000, Bloomsbury
in English
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Marrying the mistress
2000, Viking
in English
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No Title Exists.
2000, Zmora-Bitan
in Hebrew
Cover of: Marrying the mistress
Marrying the mistress
2000, QPD
in English
Cover of: Marrying the mistress
Marrying the mistress
2000, Viking
in English - 1st American ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6070.R57 M37 2000, PR6070.R57M37 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
293 p. ;
Number of pages
293

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL118084M
Internet Archive
marryingmistress0000trol_q0k7
ISBN 10
0670891509
LCCN
99462175
OCLC/WorldCat
43324423
Library Thing
227513
Goodreads
1838287

Work Description

The court official leaned closer.
"What's gone past," he said, "is not just an advocate, any old lady advocate. What's gone past is his Honour's totty."

And what's going past is the life of Guy Stockdale, a 62-year-old judge, who has been married forever, has two sons--Simon and Alan--and three grandchildren. For the past seven years, he's also had a mistress. Merrion Palmer is intelligent, attractive, and half Guy's age, which also makes her younger than both Simon and Alan. Her dad died when she was a toddler and she's well aware that Guy is something of a father substitute. For years the role of mistress has suited her, but, suddenly, this style of relationship isn't enough for either of them. They've both had enough of sneaking around and avoiding people, so Guy has momentously made up his mind to leave his wife, Laura, and marry Merrion.

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