She would do anything to get her husband back! A year ago, Dominique had been facing the hardest battle of her life--it had been a question of life or death. Everything had suffered--but most of all her marriage. Now, after a year away, she's fit, healthy and happy again--but the fight isn't over yet: she's determined to win back the handsome Greek husband she loves.
"To be, or not to be..."Alison thought she was living the good life. She and her devoted husband, Xander, had found great careers as managers of a small but successful company. They had a nice house in a nice neighborhood with nice cars. Xander had a decent group of guys to hang out and to play board games with a few times a month, giving her time to pamper herself with a good book to read in a soothing bubble bath.Sure, she was tired most evenings, but she figured it was the kind of tired that meant you had done a full day's work and earned your rest.She didn't realize Xander viewed their life differently until he made a startling request: be his sex slave and rekindle their faded sex life.Alison's initial reaction was a resounding, "Absolutely not!" Xander tries to bargain, but quickly gives up in the face of his wife's distress. The couple heads off for another routine day of work that goes completely off the rails when Alison starts to consider his request. Alison spends the morning locked in her office, reviewing their erotic relationship. She knows they have been fairly vanilla - their most daring act involved repeated pillow talk of a threesome. Even that stopped months ago as she felt increasingly guilty for imagining Xander's best friend, Gideon, in the role of the other man in their fantasy - a fact she never shared with Xander.Would it really be so horrible to try something new? As Alison conducts some online research and warms up to the idea, Xander worries he just made a big mistake. Even if she agrees, what does he do with a sex slave?Xander goes to his more-adventurous buddy Gideon for advice. Gideon suggests that Xander should start by fulfilling Alison's fantasies, but is a Master even something Xander can be?"A Husband's Request" is a light-hearted MMF romance with mild BDSM elements.
While this book is indeed titled How to Be a Husband, please do not mistake it for a self-help book. Tim Dowling—columnist for The Guardian, husband, father of three, a person who once got into a shark tank for money—does not purport to have any pearls of wisdom about wedded life. What he does have is more than twenty years of marriage experience, and plenty of hilarious advice for what not to do in almost every conjugal situation. With the sharp wit that has made his Guardian columns a weekly must-read, Dowling explores what it means to be a good husband in the twenty-first century. The bar has been raised dramatically in the last hundred years: back in the day, every time you went out for cigarettes, it was simply expected that you came back. Now, every time you’re sent out for espresso pods and tampons, it is expected that you come back with the right sort. And being a father doesn’t seem to command much innate respect these days, either. When his first child was born, Dowling imagined himself eliciting a natural awe as the distant, authoritative figurehead; he did not anticipate his children hijacking his Twitter account to post heartfelt admissions of loserdom like, “Hi, I suck at everything I try in life.” Still, two decades of wedded bliss is nothing to sneeze at, particularly from a couple who agreed to get married with the resigned determination of two people plotting to bury a body in the woods. How to Be a Husband is a wickedly funny guide to surviving the era of “The End of Men” (hint: it involves DIY), and an unexpectedly poignant memoir about love, marriage, and staying together until death doth you part.
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Be careful, Fran,” the man said quietly. “About what you think you know.” In a dilapidated farmhouse out in the vast waterlogged plains of the English Fenlands, Fran awakes groggily to her baby’s cries one February night and finds the bed empty beside her. Her husband, Nathan, is gone. Moving uneasily through the drafty rooms, searching for her husband, Fran soon makes a devastating discovery that upends her marriage and any semblance of safety. As she tries desperately to make sense of what happened to Nathan, Fran is forced to delve dangerously into the undercurrents of his claustrophobic hometown and question how well she knew him in the first place. Fran, increasingly isolated, grows paranoid—but Nathan isn’t the only one hiding something. Though she can’t tell a soul, Fran is shielding a damning secret of her own: a hazy, dreamlike memory from the night of Nathan’s disappearance that might be the key to it all. From the bestselling author of The Crooked House comes an utterly gripping psychological thriller spanning the traditions of Daphne du Maurier and S. J. Watson. Christobel Kent’s The Loving Husband is spooky and skillfully written, dragging readers deep into the unsettling world of the Fens and into a marriage of half-truths and past lives, where no one can be trusted—especially not your spouse.
The art of being a good husband is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains advice by turns delightfully arcane and timelessly true, for example:Don't squeeze the tube of toothpaste from the top instead of from the bottom. This is one of the small things of life that always irritates a careful wife.Don't think that your wife has placed waste-paper baskets in the rooms as ornaments.Don't tell your wife terminological inexactitudes, which are, in plain English, lies. A woman has wonderful intuition for spotting even minor departures from the truth.Do cultivate the habit of coming down to breakfast with a smile. Remember that as the head of the house, it is your duty to see that everyone starts the day in an atmosphere of happiness.Don't criticise the food at your own table when you are entertaining and especially refrain from doing so before the servants.
In Italy, as in most Western cultures, the 1960s was a dynamic and turbulent decade of social change. Dacia Maraini, in this short story collection, explores the vexing, tragic, and often humorous experiences of women living in modern urban Italy. With a style as lean as Samuel Beckett’s, and a love of the absurd that rivals Eugène Ionesco, Maraini’s stories are both poignant and wickedly funny. The writer’s ironic lens zooms in to examining sexual relations, working conditions, women’s issues, and family dynamics, illuminating the lives of an entire generation. With classic existential angst, Maraini’s characters are often profoundly dissatisfied with their situations, but also ill-equipped to initiate any real change. This feminist version of the absurd is deliciously wry and terrible. The stories have a real bite. Originally published as Mio marito in 1968, this is the first English translation of My Husband.
Bookstore owner Rose gets shaken up by a rose she finds in front of her store with a card reading “A rose for Rose.” The message written on the card was what James Sinclair used to say to her. James was a perfect man who was admired by everyone and embraced Rose passionately. But when he learned that their college romance was only a game, it ended in disaster. An unforgivable mistake was made?can he ever forgive her?
