- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (3 Feb 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006498256
- ISBN-13: 978-0006498254
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,140,292 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Synopsis
Giles West has been married and faithful to his childhood sweetheart for 20 years. But now, turning 40, Giles decides that to have slept with only one partner is not to have lived. What he wants is an affair without complications or recriminations, so he decides to advertise in the personal column.
From the Back Cover
A HILARIOUS STORY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MEN GET OLDER AND START BAHVING BADLY …
Giles West has been happily – and faithfully – married to his childhood sweetheart for twenty years. But with his fortieth birthday looming, Giles decides that to have had sex with only one partner your entire life is not to have lived – by modern standards. He doesn’t want to divorce his wife, he just wants to have … some point of comparison. What he wants is an anonymous affair without complications, repercussions or recriminations.
So he advertises in the peronals:
• 'Well-groomed, pleasant – looking happily married man seeks partner, 18 – 55, to have affair with. No strings attached. Interests: classical music and walking in the country. All letters answered. Please send photograph.
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What results is an uproarious romp as Giles embarks on his big adventure, and gets much more than he ever bargained for …
A book for every man who has ever wondered what he’s missing. And for every woman who wants to remind him.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Format:Paperback
This was a reading suggestion I got a while back and I didn't know what to expect. The style of writing is so funny and uncomplicated (unlike the story). If you like a laugh and a quick read, then this is the book for you. Oh yes, there's also a lesson to be learned...
Format:Paperback
This was a holiday read, and to be honest, I wouldn't have finished it had I had the run of my own bookshelf for a replacement. Lightweight and inconsequential story that lends itself as a passable comedy TV drama (probably starring Martin Clunes), but as a book is weaker than a toddler's tea. I didn't laugh once. I don't remember even smiling. The impending plot lines shout, scream and wave flags ages before they happen, so nothing is a surprise, save for the fact that I finished it. Having said that, my wife enjoyed it more than me (enjoyed it more, rather than enjoyed it if you know what I mean), and it definitely has a chick-lit feel about it contrary to the blurb on the back, so maybe I'm just lacking the oestrogen.
Format:Paperback
This book is an easy and funny read about a man who has been faithful up to now to the only women he has ever been intimate with, his wife, and feels that he is missing out. Especially since his workmate Roy has a lot of women on the side, so many that he even begins to write a computer program to manage all the appointments with them.
So our hero decides to place an ad in the personal columns of a magazine in search of an affair and to rent a postbox for receiving the replies. Already here he meets with unexpected difficulties.
Quite a few difficulties pop up during the book's progress but it would spoil the story to mention them now. See for yourselves!
Still, I can tell you that in the end the main character is a bit more mature than at the beginning although outwardly there has not been that much change.
My criticism of the book is that sometimes the humour is a bit too pushy for my liking and the storyline gets too predictible from the middle of the book onwards.
So our hero decides to place an ad in the personal columns of a magazine in search of an affair and to rent a postbox for receiving the replies. Already here he meets with unexpected difficulties.
Quite a few difficulties pop up during the book's progress but it would spoil the story to mention them now. See for yourselves!
Still, I can tell you that in the end the main character is a bit more mature than at the beginning although outwardly there has not been that much change.
My criticism of the book is that sometimes the humour is a bit too pushy for my liking and the storyline gets too predictible from the middle of the book onwards.
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