Infidelity, Stacey May Fowles
Infidelity, Stacey May Fowles
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Infidelity

Author: Stacey May Fowles

Narrator: Morgan Hallett

Unabridged: 6 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/30/2015


Synopsis

Ronnie, an engaged hairdresser with a history of teenage recklessness and mystery childhood illnesses, feels stifled by the unavoidable pull of the predictable, comfortable life laid out before her. Charlie, an anxiety-ridden, award-winning writer, feels suffocated by his literary success and familial responsibility, including a bread-winning wife and a child with autism. When the unlikely pair meet at a holiday party where Ronnie's fiancE is the caterer, a torrid affair, which begins on office desks and in Toronto hotel rooms, provides both with a false reality that offers solace in its secrets. Charlie becomes obsessed with the calm of Ronnie's ordinariness, and Ronnie revels in the clandestine secrets and dramatic interludes of an otherwise predictable life. The two live in film scripts and prose, until the entire lie combusts in all its tragic beauty. Beautifully written and engaging, this novel calls into question society's strict definition of right versus wrong while examining what it means to be a husband, wife, parent, and human being.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Suzanne on October 14, 2013

An extremely engaging read...the type that sticks with you well beyond the last page. Richly created characters that perfectly straddle that line between good and bad. Stacey May Fowles tackles more than just the anatomy of an affair in this work, but also the idea of "being good", along with issues......more

Goodreads review by Ann on March 17, 2014

If you have an affair, you're a bad person, right? Well, no -- or at least that's the premise of this well-written novel, which explores the circumstances that lead an almost-married hairdresser to pursue an affair with a very married writer (and vice versa). The novel avoids black-and-white and mor......more

Goodreads review by Bernard on April 06, 2014

I wanted to like this book; Stacey Fowles is quite an artist with the English language. However there are some serious flaws in this novel. The significant others were cookie cutter caricatures, the devoted wife who supports her husband both financially and emotionally, and the kind, thoughtful ver......more

Goodreads review by Carol on March 19, 2014

"People who commit infidelity all seem to end up in the same shitty hotel room." Infidelity is packed with gems such as this one. From the very first sentence "They say it takes a lot of nerve to leave someone at the altar" I was hooked. It was not only the plot that grabbed me. With a title like infi......more

Goodreads review by Peggy on March 23, 2014

I was headed for the bath and held out my two book picks from the library for my husband's input. In one hand was "A Better Way of Dying" and the other "Infidelity" with its really cool cover of thinning shears (my daughter cuts hair, I'd learned the correct term). Rather reluctantly he pointed at "......more