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Your Neighbour’s Wife
by Tony Parsons
Your Neighbours Wife by Tony Parsons Pub Date 7/1/2021
Tara Carver has a perfect life with her husband Christian and son Marlon, but with perfection comes complacency.
Tara runs a prestige dating site with her friend and co-worker Mary. Tara is the "face" but knows Mary is the real genius behind the concept and reason people use the site to find their "Forever Love". Christian had worked as a specialist music journalist before the market collapsed. The couple decided that he would stay home to bring up their son Marlon and be with labrador Buddy.
Tara is invited to speak at a conference on new businesses in Tokyo. Meeting James Caine there was the beginning of her nightmare. After an earthquake shakes her confidence, they share a few drinks, and in an alcohol-induced state, she ends up in the arms of James and shares a one night stand.
Tara returns home only to find that James is not satisfied with one night. He starts stalking her and refuses to let her go, even turning up at her workplace and threatening to reveal details of their encounter to her husband unless she agrees to an ongoing affair.
Tara's life begins to spiral out of control, and she's left feeling panic-stricken. She tells her best friend Ginger, but nothing they think up shakes James off. During this time, Christian changes from gentle, perfect husband and father to someone entirely unrecognisable whilst Ginger and husband Spike are not who they appear to be.
My thoughts:
I did not warm to the alternate chapters, being the differing POVs of Tara and Christian. The chapters were relatively short, and as a quick reader, I found the switching distracting.
The plot was sound in principle but pretty far-fetched. I couldn't understand why Tara had decided to have a one night stand in Tokyo in the first place when it was clear she is in a loving relationship.
Sadly I found the ending dissatisfying, and I felt it didn't tie-up with the final chapters. I also wondered how the title was decided as it bears no significance to the story.
I want to thank NetGalley, Random House UK, Cornerstone and author Tony Parsons for a pre-publication copy to review.
Tara Carver has a perfect life with her husband Christian and son Marlon, but with perfection comes complacency.
Tara runs a prestige dating site with her friend and co-worker Mary. Tara is the "face" but knows Mary is the real genius behind the concept and reason people use the site to find their "Forever Love". Christian had worked as a specialist music journalist before the market collapsed. The couple decided that he would stay home to bring up their son Marlon and be with labrador Buddy.
Tara is invited to speak at a conference on new businesses in Tokyo. Meeting James Caine there was the beginning of her nightmare. After an earthquake shakes her confidence, they share a few drinks, and in an alcohol-induced state, she ends up in the arms of James and shares a one night stand.
Tara returns home only to find that James is not satisfied with one night. He starts stalking her and refuses to let her go, even turning up at her workplace and threatening to reveal details of their encounter to her husband unless she agrees to an ongoing affair.
Tara's life begins to spiral out of control, and she's left feeling panic-stricken. She tells her best friend Ginger, but nothing they think up shakes James off. During this time, Christian changes from gentle, perfect husband and father to someone entirely unrecognisable whilst Ginger and husband Spike are not who they appear to be.
My thoughts:
I did not warm to the alternate chapters, being the differing POVs of Tara and Christian. The chapters were relatively short, and as a quick reader, I found the switching distracting.
The plot was sound in principle but pretty far-fetched. I couldn't understand why Tara had decided to have a one night stand in Tokyo in the first place when it was clear she is in a loving relationship.
Sadly I found the ending dissatisfying, and I felt it didn't tie-up with the final chapters. I also wondered how the title was decided as it bears no significance to the story.
I want to thank NetGalley, Random House UK, Cornerstone and author Tony Parsons for a pre-publication copy to review.