Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0007277121 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-00-727712-4 |
No of pages | 405 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | Harper Collins India |
Published Date | 03 Aug 2009 |
There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Tony Parsons (born 6 November 1953) is a British journalist broadcaster and author.
He began his career as a music journalist on the NME, writing about punk music. Later, he wrote for The Daily Telegraph, before going on to write his current column for the Daily Mirror.
Parsons was for a time a regular guest on the BBC Two arts review programmed The Late Show, and still appears infrequently on the successor Newsnight Review; he also briefly hosted a series on Channel 4 called Big Mouth.
He is the author of the multi-million selling novel, Man and Boy (1999). Parsons had written a number of novels including The Kids (1976), Platinum Logic (1981) and Limelight Blues (1983), before he found mainstream success by focusing on the tribulations of thirty-something men.
Parsons has since published a series of best-selling novels – One For My Baby (2001), Man and Wife (2003), The Family Way (2004), Stories We Could Tell (2006), My Favorite Wife (2007), Starting Over (2009) and Men From the Boys (2010).
His novels typically deal with relationship problems, emotional dramas and the traumas of men and women in our time. He describes his writing as 'Men Lit', as opposed to the rising popularity of 'Chick Lit'.
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This publication is not for sale to libraries. The world-wide, mega selling author of "Man and Boy" is back with a sizzling, Shanghai tale of sex, romance and second wives. Hot 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 Jenin Li, ex-school teacher, crossword addict and the Holden’s' neighbor. 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 Jenin are thrown together.
Bill wants to be a better man than the millionaire who keeps Jenin 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 Jenin anything better than she had before? "My Favorite Wife" is a book about where sex, romance and obsession ends, and where true love begins.