Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins is a strange and often uneven but highly melodramatic novel. It is as complicated as any modern soap opera. Anne and Blanche are best friends. Their mothers--also named Anne and Blanche--were also best friends. (Though both mothers are dead by the time this story really gets started. Perhaps that is why these two--now of marriageable age--cling to one another so fiercely.) But this friendship is about to be tested. And not just a little bit. Anne, out of necessity or "duty" is about to separate herself (perhaps forever) from her closest friend. Foolishly, Anne gave into temptation with Geoffrey Delamayn, and is now reaping the consequences. She's pregnant. And she's trying to push her lover into marriage. Reminding him of all that he's said and done.
- ISBN10 1105317366
- ISBN13 9781105317361
- Publish Date 10 December 2011
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English