Man and Wife

Man and Wife
Tony Parsons

Harry Silver returns to face life in the “blended family.” A wonderful novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and Boy, or completely on its own.Man and Wife is a novel about love and marriage – about why we fall in love and why we marry; about why we stay and why we go.Harry Silver is a man coming to terms with a divorce and a new marriage. He has to juggle with time and relationships, with his wife and his ex-wife, his son and his stepdaughter, his own work and his wife's fast-growing career.Meanwhile his mother, who stood so steadfastly by his father until he died, is not getting any younger or stronger herself.In fact, everything in Harry's life seems complicated. And when he meets a woman in a million, it gets even more so…Man and Wife stands on its own as a brilliant novel about families in the new century, written with all the humour, passion and superb storytelling that have made Tony Parsons a favourite author in over thirty countries.

Tony Parsons

Man and Wife

HarperCollinsPublishers

For my father

Table of Contents

Cover (#u48b29763-dafd-54bf-b8a7-032df682f1dd)

Title Page (#ueac1e8a1-8db8-5005-919b-6a8917aa3c34)

Dedication (#u0ed280b3-c598-5f7e-a52c-c39d99530cb6)

Part One: The Man of Her Dreams (#ud0140a90-6db9-5a80-a73a-a246bde1ccf8)

Chapter One (#u41aea95d-6df6-58c6-b1d8-7309215d2f6a)

Chapter Two (#ud2ce8ead-8daf-55e8-b373-bf352364c379)

Chapter Three (#u9f10b2eb-30cd-5644-bf88-7e0cb2ea3096)

Chapter Four (#u95fec679-f252-5cdb-9a9a-98599894dbb4)

Chapter Five (#uaa808cd8-b12e-57c0-ba2a-0928f8a741c9)

Chapter Six (#u1fa4712a-3223-56d9-9444-aceed1d3af1a)

Chapter Seven (#u372cccf1-5b09-589e-9861-1b97feabea0b)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two: Your Heart is a Small Miracle (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three: The Greatest Girl in the History of the World (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirty (#litres_trial_promo)

By the Same Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

part one: the man of her dreams (#u9eff58c1-c662-5a67-b6d4-815202ee5c19)

The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

My son comes to my wedding.

He’s my best man. That’s what I tell him. ‘You’re my best man, Pat.’ He looks pleased. He has never been a best man before. Not that he makes a smirking speech about what I got up to with sheep during my wild youth, or tries to get off with the bridesmaid, or even gets to look after the rings. He’s only six years old.