Swapping

Lowe, Shirley; Ince, Angela - Howe, Geoffrey (inscription from)

ISBN 10: 0340410124 / ISBN 13: 9780340410127

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 1987

About this Item

UK hardback first impression. has the Howe bookplate to front pastedown. Ffep has gift inscription from Howe to his wife, and additional inscription to his wife from Angela Ince below. VG with toning to page block in VG unclipped jacket.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1731585287723

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Swapping
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0340410124
• ISBN 13: 9780340410127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

It's a popular notion that men fall again and again for the same sort of woman. SWAPPING suggests that it is women who obligingly change and adapt themselves to fit men's fantasies. It is Ann's and Felicia's good luck that while performing this flexible feminine trick, they stumble on something infintely more important - themselves.

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.
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