My Favourite Wife is a book about the men and women of our time – their struggles, their joys and their secret longings.Above all it is a book about where sex, romance and obsession ends, and where true love begins. Hot shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move with their four-year-old daughter to the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai.It is a place of opportunity and temptation, where fortunes are made and foreign marriages come apart in spectacular fashion. Bill's law firm houses the Holden family in Paradise Mansions – a luxury apartment block full of 'second wives': beautiful young women like JinJin Li, ex-school teacher, crossword addict, dedicated roller skater and the Holdens' neighbour. After Becca witnesses a near-tragedy, she returns temporarily to London with Holly – and Bill and JinJin are thrown together. Bill wants to be a better man than the millionaire who keeps JinJin Li as a second wife.Better than any man who cheats.Beccas is his best friend.But in the end, can he give JinJin anything different – can he give her the love she deserves? And can he love his wife too?
【作者简介】
Tony Parsons is the author of Man and Boy , winner of the Book of the Year prize.His subsequent novels – One For My Baby, Man and Wife, The Family Way, Stories We Could Tell and My Favourite Wife – were all bestsellers.He lives in London.
以下为对购买帮助不大的评价