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"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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Mistresses, Judges, Grandfathers, Remarried people, Fiction, Family realtionships, 2000s, Adultery, Young women, Middle-aged men, Family relationships, Remarriage, Fiction, general, Juvenile fiction, Middle aged men, Domestic fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Young women, fiction, Married people, fiction, Marriage, fictionPeople
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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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