My Favourite Wife

My Favourite Wife
Tony Parsons

The world-wide, mega selling author of Man and Boy is back with a sizzling, Shanghai tale of sex, romance and second wivesHot shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move with their four year old daughter to the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai, a place of enormous wealth and crushing poverty, where fortunes are made and foreign marriages come apart in spectacular fashion.Bill's law firm houses the Holden family in Paradise Mansions – a luxury apartment block where newly rich Chinese men install their second wives: fabulous young beauties like JinJin Li, ex-school teacher, crossword addict and the Holdens' neighbour.After Becca witnesses a tragedy that awakens her to the reality of life beyond the glitzy surface of the city, she returns temporarily to London with Holly – and Bill and JinJin are thrown together.Bill wants to be a better man than the millionaire who keeps JinJin Li as a second wife on the side. A better man than anyone who cheats. Becca is his best friend. And, in the end, adrift without his young family, can he give JinJin anything better than she had before?My Favourite Wife is a book about where sex, romance and obsession ends, and where true love begins.

My Favourite Wife

Tony Parsons

HarperCollinsPublishers

For Yuriko, MFW

You see, I loved her. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Lolita

A man with two houses loses his mind. A man with two women loses his soul.

Chinese proverb

Table of Contents

Cover (#u1c733465-5cde-5d0a-bde2-33c0b13c7f61)

Title Page (#u8e39ccce-35bc-5796-8422-126fe090003c)

Dedication (#u62883e31-2f0f-555f-b916-7b074c6fe6d4)

Epigraph (#uf67c8e4b-fe93-5a3f-9e30-7923505bc410)

Part One: Be The Prince (#u98e31305-647c-5ce0-8ed1-ca1be0313d37)

Chapter One (#u9d8dc48e-7acb-5ff7-aadd-6bbaec802adb)

Chapter Two (#u30e37d98-e7b4-56cb-8c33-1adae5738ed4)

Chapter Three (#u7c459562-9978-56df-a19c-c24082290bf4)

Chapter Four (#ubfb324be-75fe-5b75-ae99-74f6617d8ade)

Chapter Five (#u41bc192e-e4d2-5c46-9acb-e948ab007dcd)

Chapter Six (#ubc378f67-6551-5cb8-8288-89b514e4f99d)

Chapter Seven (#u3c898d7d-1970-512a-81c0-1a612cecdd76)

Chapter Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two: The Permanent Girlfriend (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#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)

Part Three: Home Calling (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#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)

Part Four: See You Around (#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)