Just Sex - Softcover

Law, Susan Kay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425215237 ISBN 13: 9780425215234

Publisher: Berkley Trade, 2007

Synopsis

Caught up in her passionless marriage to an unfaithful, high-powered businessman, Ellen, a housewife and mother, is stunned when her spouse, desperate to prove that his reckless liaisons are mere sexual encounters, challenges her to find this out for herself. Original.

About this title

About the Author:

Susan Kay Law is the author of over a dozen novels and has won several awards. This is her first contemporary novel. She lives with her husband and three sons in Minnesota.

From Publishers Weekly:

As Law's latest opens, Ellen Markham, a Minnesota housewife who considers Diet Coke her only vice, is having her hands pulled off her philandering husband Tom's neck by an extremely expensive marriage counselor. After the disastrous session, Tom throws down the gauntlet and tells Ellen that she should have an affair to even the score and realize that sometimes a relationship can be just sex. Hyperbolic comedy drives this not-quite romance from veteran Law (One Lonely Night, etc.), as Ellen, with help from best friend Jill, warily embarks on the challenge to meet Mr. Right Now. The madcap plot awkwardly juxtaposes with the complex feelings Ellen faces as her marriage erodes (the couple have two children), and everyone around her, including Ellen's 15-year-old daughter and Jill, harbors debilitating secrets. There's a surprisingly bitter aftertaste to the novel's often sugary sweet setups.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Trade
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0425215237
• ISBN 13: 9780425215234
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 330