Husbands and Other Lovers

by Jane Elizabeth Varley

Set in contemporary England and America, "Husbands and Lovers" unfolds through the eyes of two women who have married two brothers from a respectable English family. When the women are challenged by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752877895
• ISBN13: 9780752877891
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
• Length: 485 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

A modern razor sharp tale of dysfunctional coupling.

This page turner portrays the sordid personality of Robert Agnew, sociopath, and his alcoholic brother James. Robert is conniving, cold, ruthless, obsessive compulsive and abusing with women, sadistic is the word that best describes him. All his women have suffered hard core humiliation and nerve wrecking fear. Robert is capable of anything especially if his daughter Araminta is concerned. James and Susannah battle his addictions to the bottle and his ever present lying; their love life is cut short due to his drinking and then his own recovery. This is a nicely woven story of love, passion, current affairs between men and wives, as well as parenting. I was intrigued and enthralled by the depth of Varley's men and women characters. Having read Wives and Lovers, her first novel, I must say I recommend this one even more. I found it more cutting edge, fast paced, and unexpected.