The Rule of Three: A Memoir (with benefits) (Paperback or Softback)

THE RULE OF THREE

When your husband cheats, there’s only one rule worth following…

Julia Bennett’s husband of twenty-five years is having an affair. Her immediate reaction is to hate the idea of being a betrayed cliché and her second is to scream

“I JUST WANT MY LIFE BACK!”

Her son’s infuriatingly confident girlfriend suggests a radical cure:

The Rule of Three.

Three men. Three flings. Three chances to find out what- and who - she really wants before deciding whether to forgive, forget, or move on.

Julia is horrified. She was a virgin before she met Jonathan – she’s pretty sure she is now the only non-nun, near virgin, mother-of-two in existence– and the idea of the Rule of Three terrifies her.

But, urged on by her daughter, her best friend and, very unexpectedly, her mother, Julia goes for it.

From disastrous flirtations to unexpected awakenings, Julia’s mission to reclaim her marriage becomes something far bigger and she begins to wonder: does she really want her old life back?

Sexy, funny and relatable, THE RULE OF THREE is a laugh-out-loud coming-of-middle-age tale for fans of Marion Keyes, David Nicholls and Alexandra Potter who have ever wondered if the best years might still be to come.

Jennifer has been an actor, producer and academic. As a writer, her work for film and theatre includes national tours of The Turn of the Screw, A Christmas Carol and her one-woman play The Rule of Three. Jennifer performed the Rule of Three at festivals in the USA with a musical verion being staged at the Jermyn Street Theatre in London. Jennifer's screenplays have won awards at La Femme, 21st Century and Latino Screenwriting Competitions. Her experimental screenplay, MSI: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations, written with her mathematician brother Andrew Granville, has taken many forms - a live performance, a chamber music composition and, in 2019, a graphic novel, Prime Suspects: The Anatomy of Integers and Permutations, published by Princeton University Press.