Separate Beds: A Novel - Hardcover

Buchan, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670022365 ISBN 13: 9780670022366

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2011

Synopsis

Hiding the truth about their crumbling marriage beneath a veneer of professional success and domestic security, Tom and Annie are destabilized when the economic crisis causes Tom to lose his job and two family members to move in, a situation that has unexpected benefits. By the award-winning author of Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman.

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From the Back Cover:

Annie and Tom's marriage is in mid-life crisis.

They seem to have everything - a lovely home, rewarding jobs and three healthy grown-up children - but, beneath the surface, all is not well. Beneath the surface lies a secret guilt which ensures that whilst they live under the same roof, they sleep in separate beds.

Then, as recession strikes, Tom comes home one evening and drops a bombshell that threatens to destroy everything they have left. Will he and Annie be able to leave the past behind and weather this storm together? Or will it push them further apart?

Annie is about to discover that out of disaster springs the faint rays of hope. As her family rallies together, for the first time in years, her home is filled with people, conversation, tears - and laughter. And, little by little, Annie and Tom start to open up to one another about the terrible, painful truth they have lived with all these years.

Soon a new, unexpected future starts to take shape as Annie and Tom are offered a second chance at happiness. But will they take it?

Praise for Elizabeth Buchan

'Gorgeously well-written - funny, sad, sophisticated' Independent

Compelling, compassionate, and aglow with moments of laugh-or-cry humour' Mail on Sunday

'Wise, melancholy, funny and sophisticated' The Times

About the Author:

Elizabeth Buchan is the author of several highly acclaimed and bestselling books of fiction, including the bestselling Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman, The Good Wife Strikes Back, Everything She Thought She Wanted, and Consider the Lily.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0670022365
• ISBN 13: 9780670022366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 372