Swapping - Softcover

Lowe, Shirley; Ince, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340430044 ISBN 13: 9780340430040

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division, 1989

Synopsis

This novel explores the notion that women change themselves to fit men's fantasies. The theory is illustrated by Felicia, who is attractive and married to a workaholic, and Ann, a country housewife absorbed in her garden. Unexpectedly, their lives cross.

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From Publishers Weekly

In this very funny tale of infidelity in the English upper-middle class, Ann Forester-Jones is jolted out of her comfortable domestic routine in Hampshire when her husband Antony, an ad man, confesses his affair with beautiful actress Felicia Harman, who is married to a workaholic American banker. Not content with chucking 16 years of marriage for a casual affair, Antony adds that Felicia has been ejected from the Harman household and is on her way to join their menage. Ann, outraged and betrayed, takes the next train to London where she seeks solace at her mother's flat. Meanwhile, down in the country, jet-setting star Felicia finds herself obliged to cope with three children (the eldest of whom loathes the interloper), two dogs and cutting remarks from the cleaning woman and the locals. How Ann and Felicia finally become friends, sharing worries and children, overcoming the selfish men in their lives, how they find new happiness andmore importantfind themselves is told in two alternating first-person narratives. Ann becomes a successful public-relations consultant, while Felicia adapts to country living with a vengeance. Lowe and Ince (Losing Ground) create scene after scene that both touch and wickedly amuse. They are currently adapting Swapping for BBC television. First serial to Family Circle.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

$17.95. f Ann is an English country wife married to Anthony, a womanizing advertising executive. Felicia is a beautiful, semi-successful actress married to Donald, an American workaholic entrepreneur in London. Donald eventually learns of Felicia's and Anthony's affair and kicks her out, straight into Anthony's arms. Anthony takes Felicia home to the country, thereby forcing Ann out and leaving both women miserable. Then the women changeAnn to a sexy, beautiful businesswoman, Felicia to a country matron uninterested in her work. As the two come into their own, they become friends, and their children benefit. Recommended for public libraries. Marion Hanscom, SUNY at Binghamton Lib.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton General Division
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340430044
• ISBN 13: 9780340430040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256