Nicholas is in his early forties, has been married for nearly twenty years to a wife he still adores. Kate is lively, vibrant, enthusiastic; Nicholas feels old, decaying, ineffectual. How can someone like her possibly still love a man as depressing as him? Kate, who does love Nicholas - enormously - has noticed that her husband's unhappy but he won't tell her why. Her response is to be especially loving when she's with him, and to keep very busy so she doesn't have to be with him as often as before. Thus are the seeds of disharmony sown, because Nicholas, of course, is now convinced that Kate is having an affair...
- ISBN10 0340623411
- ISBN13 9780340623411
- Publish Date 15 August 1996 (first published 7 March 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Hodder Paperback
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 384
- Language English