Intimate Strangers - Softcover

Intimate Strangers

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 352 pages. Mutually delighted by the idea to swap houses for the summer, the British Cal lahans and the American McCarthys begin holidays that soon test their marital li mits and secret desires. Lit Guild Alt. Editorial Reviews From Publishers Week ly The catalyst: an ad, impulsively placed with the Worldwide Home Exchange Club by British journalists Maggie and Oliver Callahan of Brockhampton House in Wilt shire. The next step: an impulsive reply from Christy and Gabe McCarthy of Oak R idge, an almost plantation-sized house in rural North Carolina. The result: a se emingly innocent eight-week house swap that will end in the destruction of both marriages. The Callahans know something is amiss in their marriage?Oliver is a c ompulsive liar with a habit of adultery, and Maggie loathes the fact that her ch auvinistic husband has begun to consider her just a housewife. When, on the eve of their departure for America, Oliver disappears to London, Maggie retaliates b y sleeping with their closest friend, antique auctioneer Edward Arabin. Meanwhil e, on the other side of the Atlantic, attorney Gabe McCarthy adores his wife and young son but fears that Christy sometimes finds him boring. A justifiable susp icion, for Christy arrives in England in search of an emotion that will be dange rous and awful. When she stumbles upon an unfinished novel, A Sad Affair, in Oli ver's study, Christy is certain she's found the man who can fulfill the fantasy. Then, a freak combination of a stray cat, a milk bottle, and a prank doorbell r inger brings Oliver back to London and into Christy's waiting dreams. British-Am erican writer Mead's bright and engaging novel of love, manners and temptation s ucceeds in being sensual without relying on gratuitous sex, and finishes with a. Artikel-Nr. 630z

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