A Married Man

by Piers Paul Read

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0330263692
• ISBN13: 9780330263696
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Mid-life crisis self indulgence leads to real tragedy

A disillusioned barrister attempts to recapture the idealism and passion of his youth -via entry into politics and the commencement of an extra marital affair. The novel charts his ruthless re-aninmation with a sensitive eye for the ironies of life. It is a novel that despises what it describes -but is canny enough to invite the reader to draw their own conclusions. The familiarity of marriage and its killing effect on passion are unflinchingly exposed. However, no easy answers are offered. All that is certain is that we are responsible for our own actions -that these actions have consequences is the hardest lesson of all. A book of bleak, profound truth.