Susan wants another husband. Which comes as a shock to the current one. 'But not instead of you, Alan, my sugar - as well as. You see?' Yet once Susan has brazenly commandeered her boss's rich, elderly hand, Alan finds himself curiously cherishing the company - sharing wife, whisky and other, odder peccadilloes. Indeed Susan is forced to root out alternative amusements - and with their teenage daughter copying her disintegrating moral code, the complex machinery of their lives soon begins to break down. Joseph Connolly plunges the reader into a tumultuous medley of inner monologues with keen, unabashed relish; exposing marital bedroom and male bonding in this biting, excruciatingly funny observation of men, women and adolescent girls.
- ISBN10 1780877226
- ISBN13 9781780877228
- Publish Date 3 April 2014
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Quercus Publishing
- Imprint riverrun
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English