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Also by Madeleine Wickham:

40 Love, September 2011
Paperback
Sleeping Arrangements, July 2008
Hardcover

40 LOVE
By: Madeleine Wickham

St. Martin's Press
September 2011
On Sale: August 30, 2011
288 pages
ISBN: 0312562756
EAN: 9780312562755
Paperback
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Women's Fiction

Everyone wins this game of literary tennis, a comedy of manners about envy in which Wickham skewers the nouveau riche. At their country estate, Patrick Chance and his wife host a weekend tennis party. As four couples gather on the sunny terrace, it seems obvious who among them is succeeding, and who is falling behind. But by the end of the party, nothing will be quite as certain. While the couples’ children amuse themselves with pony rides and rehearsals for a play, the adults suffer a series of personal revelations and crises. Wickham’s nonstop action reveals at every turn that matters may not be as they seem, and in the end one thing is crystal clear: the weekend is about anything but tennis.