Book info

• Title Man and Wife
• Author Tony Parsons
• Year 2002
• Genre Contemporary

Man and Wife is a novel about love and marriage – about why we fall in love and why we marry; about why we stay and why we go. Harry Silver is a man coming to terms with a divorce and a new marriage. He has to juggle with time and relationships, with his wife and his ex-wife, his son and his stepdaughter, his own work and his wife's fast-growing career. Meanwhile his mother, who stood so steadfastly by his father until he died, is not getting any younger or stronger herself. In fact, everything in Harry's life seems complicated. And when he meets a woman in a million, it gets even more so...

Thoughts

The sequel to Man And Boy, this novel deals with the subsequent marriages and fallings out that happen as the boy grows up and so does his father. Will he be able to cope as his mother becomes ill? Will he be able to resist the new and exciting woman he meets?

Of course Harry is as confused and wandering as ever, and he gets on my nerves a bit but just occasionally, I can see where he’s coming. I get him far more in this one than I did the first. His wife continues to come across as uncaring.

The style of writing is good, open and occasionally funny. I couldn’t remember the first book to start with but it brings you right back into the swing of things and it’s like you never left.

A good story with twists and turns but a conclusive ending. Recommended if you want to see how to get over and on with divorce and marriage.

Rating: 3 / 5