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The Things We Do for Love (Paperback)

by Lisa Appignanesi (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New Ed edition (19 Jan 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0006496709
  • ISBN-13: 978-0006496700
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.2 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 233,477 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Appignanesi is a spirited storyteller! she has produced as lively a page-turner as one could hope for' Daily Telegraph

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An intriguing, compulsive romantic thriller from the highly acclaimed author of A Good Woman and Memory and Desire. How well do you know the person you're married to? Cambridge. Tessa and Stephen's marriage is quietly foundering. She wants a baby, but seemingly cannot have one. Stephen, an introverted scientist, will not talk about it. Tessa can't talk about anything else. A mysterious French voice on the ansaphone leads her to suspect Stephen of infidelity. When he leaves for a conference in Paris, Tess -- impulsively, uncharacteristically -- decides to follow him. But once abroad, Stephen is no longer the quiet Englishman. He has a network of contacts, overt and covert, from Paris to Prague, through which information has been disseminated since Cold War days. But now the political barriers are down, free enterprise is sweeping the scientific community. Information is power, power is money. And Stephen has a uniquely valuable project stored on his laptop! As the frontiers change -- geographic, scientific, personal -- as the shifting balance between the sexes leads to expanding expectations, Stephen and Tessa must weigh their new knowledge of each other against the age-old desires for companionship, satisfaction and passion.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Unusual, intriguing and hard to classify..., 11 Jun 2003
By Catherine W (hampshire, UK) - See all my reviews
This is not my usual kind of book but it was passed on to me as part of a mixed bag when I was going on holiday, and to my surprise, I really enjoyed it. The blend of romance, human interest and espionage was just about right for someone who is not an avid reader of the spy genre. It was also one of the few loosely "romantic" books I can imagine recommending to a male reader.

A message on an answerphone and a contact name on a memo lead Tessa to suspect that her scientist husband, Stephen, is having an affair. And why not, when her desire to have a baby has created such a huge rift between them? She decides to investigate and secretly follows him to Paris, where an American man takes a flattering interest in her. What she doesn't know is that for many years Stephen has acted as a courier for a network carrying scientific information across the Iron Curtain, run by Simone, an ageing and elegant French woman, who has secrets of her own.

The action shifts to Eastern Europe, where Tessa falls in love with an abandoned baby and finds herself in unimaginable danger from her new admirer, Simone attempts to sort out the fallout from her wartime past, and Stephen begins to suspect that his own scientific work has been stolen. Stephen's old friend Jan, himself going through a separation, raises some interesting questions about how a marriage can be kept alive. By the end of the story, many things have been resolved.

I really liked the style of this novel - neither twee and romantic nor off-puttingly terse and hard-bitten, it had a kind of clarity that I found very appropriate for a novel about academic thinkers. If Iris Murdoch, in her earlier and simpler style, had written a spy thriller, it might have read a bit like this. I look forward to reading more by this author!

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