Harry Silver is learning to juggle his many commitments - to his wife and his ex-wife, to his son, his stepdaughter and his mother, to his own work and his wife's career. And then someone walks into his life who is going to make it all even more complicated . . .
A sequel to the international bestseller Man and Boy, Man and "Wife also stands on its own as a brilliant novel about relationships in the new century — about why we fall in love and why we marry — about why we stay and why we go.
'Funny, serious, tender and honest . . . Tony Parsons is writing about the genuine dilemmas of modern life'
Sunday Express
'It has it all - parent/child conflict, professional intrusions on personal space, serious illness, life-threatening accidents — a one sitting read '
Mirror
'He takes as his specialist subject contemporary emotional issues which almost every other male writer has ignored'
Guardian