The Adultery Club

Zusatztext "Perfect beach reading...Engaging! amusing! sexy! and surprisingly thought-provoking." — The Boston Globe "One of my favorite books of the year." —Jane Green! New York Times bestselling author “[A] superior tale of immorality and lust…Warmly recommended.” — Daily Mail! UK “The perfect book to make you debate...a novel about cheating that challenges the reader to pick sides.” — In the Know ! UK “Bring this to your book club!”— Eve Magazine ! UK “With stiletto-sharp wit! Stimson unfolds a love triangle from all three points of view.” — Cosmopolitan ! UK “Stimson’s characters are complex and believable.”— Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Tess Stimon is the author of three previous novels and one biography! and writes regularly for UK newspapers and women’s magazines. Born and brought up in Sussex! England! she graduated from Oxford University before spending a number of years working in Europe! Cyprus! and Lebanon as a TV news producer with ITN (UK) and CNN. She now lives in Florida with her American husband! their daughter and two sons. Klappentext Married and content! Nicholas Lyon never expected a harmless fling to turn into a raging passion. His beautiful wife! Malinche! is not as settled as Nicholas believes. When she faces temptation! her marriage is taken to the brink in this thought-provoking novel of contemporary relationships.Bantam Chapter One Nicholas Divorce is a difficult business. Never more so, may I suggest, than when your client authoritatively declares all men are bastards, and you’re left shifting uncomfortably in your seat. “Not all men, Mrs. Stephenson,” I venture. My client ignores my genial smile, gray eyes flicking dismissively around my oak-paneled office. Her gaze briefly snags on the silver-framed photograph of my wife propped beside the leather blotter on my desk; her expression of pity for my spouse places me foursquare with those unfortunates whose parents neglected the legal niceties before bedding down together. Since I have just secured her an extremely generous seven-figure settlement from her ex-husband, I find her disdain for my sex in its entirety a little unfair. She stands and I rise with her, straightening my silk tie. She extends a scrawny pink tweed arm; her hand sits like a wet fish in mine. “You may be right, Mr. Lyon,” she says dryly. “Maybe it’s just the men I marry.” Her scent is pungent and overpowering: synthetic cat piss. Far too much makeup; I can’t imagine kissing those jammy red lips. She’s the kind of woman one would find smeared all over the sheets in the morning, the pillowslip imprinted with her face like the Turin shroud. Good legs, though. Slender, neat calves, with nicely turned ankles. But no meat on her bones, and breasts like a boy. My professional smile does not slip as I escort her to the door. I endeavor not to morally judge my clients; it’s distracting and unproductive. There’s no place in the context of divorce law for emotion or sentimentality; one has quite enough of that kind of thing from one’s clients. My wife, of course—being a woman—begs to differ. I consider myself merely objective. Malinche, however, asserts that my “brutal kind of truth,” as she emotively puts it, is akin to judging a woman’s skin only in the harsh glare of daylight, rather than by the softening glow of the fire. I can’t quite see her point. My client stops suddenly in the doorway; I almost run into the back of her. Her head dips as if in prayer, exposing pale, downy vertebrae beneath the stiff blond bob. The nape of a woman’s neck—so vulnerable, so quixotically erotic. “I always thought—hoped—” she chokes back a sob, “he’d change his mind.” I’m at a loss. I certainly did not have this woman pegged as a clinger. Still ...

Product details

• Authors: Tess Stimson
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.01.2008
• EAN: 9780385341264
• ISBN: 978-0-385-34126-4
• No. of pages: 386
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 25 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature