The pretend wife

English language

Published Nov. 15, 2009 by Bantam Books.

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978-0-385-34191-2
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What would life be like with the one who got away?From the author of My Husband's Sweethearts--hailed as "a laugh-and-cry novel" that's "whip-smart, tender...an undiluted joy to read"--comes this bighearted, funny, fiercely perceptive tale about a happily married woman and the little white lie that changed everything.... For Gwen Merchant, love has always been doled out in little packets--from her father, a marine biologist who buried himself in work after her mother's death; and from her husband, Peter, who's always been respectable and safe. But when an old college boyfriend, the irrepressible Elliot Hull, invites himself back into Gwen's life, she starts to remember a time when love was an ocean. What does Elliot want? In fact, he has a rather surprising proposition: he wants Gwen to become his wife. His pretend wife. Just for a few days. To accompany him to his family's lake house for the weekend so …

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Subjects

  • Married women -- Fiction
  • Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction