Ella Stuart thinks she has it all! She's very confident in
herself, is a respected pediatrician with a gorgeous,
loving, devoted husband, and is in an eight-year affair
with a man she adores. The routine of her life could not be
better. Ella's lover enjoys their somewhat odd arrangement,
as well. William Ashfield is married (but not happily) with
children and feels safe in the fact that Ella will never
want anything more from him than an occasional evening
together.
Beth Ashfield is William's somewhat deranged wife. Beth is
struggling with manic depression and emotional instability.
William's entire married life has been a rollercoaster,
sometimes very out of control. Beth alienates her three
children and William, but that alienation and her illness
has had the greatest effect on Caitlin, their 17-year-old
daughter. Caitlin is the only one of their children still
living at home and takes the brunt of the responsibility
for seeing that her mother doesn't hurt herself, or anyone
else, during her many mood swings.
Except for Beth's instability, all is right with Ella and
William's affair -- until Jackson, Ella's husband, suddenly
dies. It turns Ella's world upside down and puts William in
an uncomfortable position. He now fears that Ella will want
something more permanent with him, and he cannot give it to
her. Add to that the fact that Caitlin finds out about the
two of them and confronts Ella. They are all living lies
and pretending their lives are something they are not. Will
any of them ever find true peace?
Each of these four characters tells the story from their
own perspective, and sometimes that perspective can be very
different. They discover how interwoven their lives really
are in this fast-paced, interactive story of love and
relationships. Will Ella, William, Beth and Cate learn that
sometimes you have to let someone go if you really love
them? ONE GOOD AFFAIR is a great read. It is set just
outside of London, but you will travel with William and
Ella to New York, with Cate to Paris and with Beth to Rome
in search of answers, true love and happiness.
With her gift for “surprising emotional honesty…[and] an
impressive ability to get inside the heads of [her
characters],”* Tess Stimson grips readers with this
internationally bestselling novel of six lovers, two
marriages, one affair—and what happens when a lifetime of
secrets begins to unravel.
Ella Stuart is a
pediatrician with a fulfilling career and a marriage any
woman would envy. William Ashfield is a devoted husband, a
good father, and a successful businessman. Beth Ashfield
married the love of her life and loves him still, but the
light inside her is going out and she has one last chance
to rekindle it. And Cate, Beth and William’s brilliant but
troubled teenage daughter, is trying to negotiate the
rough waters between adolescence and womanhood. But when
tragedy strikes, the repercussions spiral through all of
their lives—and in an instant, nothing will ever be the
same. Now Ella, William, Beth, and Cate will discover that
trying to have it all might be keeping them from the very
thing they each want most….
With sharp wit and
moving honesty, Tess Stimson has written a brazenly
unsentimental yet deeply felt novel of hearts gone astray
that somehow keep the faith—even when everyone seems to be
cheating.
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