- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan; New Ed edition (12 Jun 1981)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330263692
- ISBN-13: 978-0330263696
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 11.2 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 320,776 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Every August, barrister John Strickland leaves London for the annual holiday at his wife Clare s family home in Norfolk. This year, on a lazy summer s afternoon Strickland, reads something that changes his life for good. All that Strickland has accepted as the way things are, for good or bad, is turned on its head. In a few short months he turns from middle-class lawyer into socialist MP, from loving husband to adulterer and more. Until one of his more cruel mid-life fantasies is brought to life - and John Strickland finds that despite everything he is and always will be a married man.
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Piers Paul Read is a well-known journalist and the author of several acclaimed and bestselling works of fiction and non-fiction, including the phenomenal bestseller Alive!. He is married to Emily Read and they have four children. He is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, the Evening Standard, The Times and the Spectator
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
One of Read's best novels within a complelling collection, A Married Man is set amidst the turbulent political background of the 1970s UK. It centres upon the aspirations & desires of a complex & successful lawyer...a man who 'has it all' but fails to reach fulfilment as he gallops toward middle age. Read introduces hopes & fears familiar to many - the doubts, fears and intentions of a 'good' middle class male in modern Britain. An excellent read...grab a copy fast!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is an excellent read. The story appears at first to be fairly mundane, but as you get involved with the characters, particularly the main one, it's a book I found hard to put down. Excellent conclusion.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Rereading is one of life's great pleasures. It was thirty years since I last read this, my favourite of Read's novels and, as I'm about to begin writing a political novel, it seemed a good time to revisit this story, set in 1973-4, about a barrister who decides to become a Labour MP. It holds up really well on a third reading and I was surprised by how well I remembered many aspects of it, except for a sudden lurch into epistolary form towards the end, where it veers (perhaps too much) into Graham Greene 'The End Of The Affair' territory. An old fashioned, but very satisfying novel.
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We need more novels of this calibre
Another reviewer has referred to this novel as old fashioned, but I am not sure why? The themes of adultery and loyalty and couples trying to fnd their way feel very modern, even... Read more
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