After the Party

The Consequences

Colette Freedman · 311 pages

"Explores the aftermath of infidelity from three different perspectives--husband, wife, and mistress"--Page 4 of cover.

Watermelon

Marian Keyes · 614 pages

February the fifteenth is a very special day for me. It is the day I gave birth to my first child. It is also the day my husband left me...I can only assume the two events weren't entirely unrelated. Claire has everything she ever wanted: a husband she adores, a great apartment, a good job. Then, on the day she gives birth to their first baby, James informs her that he's leaving her. Claire is lef

Silver Wedding

Maeve Binchy · 306 pages

Man, Woman, and Child

Erich Segal · 218 pages

Bob and Sheila Beckwith had everything: rewarding careers, two wonderful daughters, and a perfect marriage ... almost perfect. For what Sheila didn't know was that Bob had once been unfaithful - only once, ten years ago during a business trip to France. What Bob didn't know was that his brief affair had produced a son. Now, a tragic accident and one fateful phonecall will change Bob and Sheila's l

The Secrets of Married Women

Carol Mason · 327 pages

For Jill, having a child has never been the be all and end all. She's just happy to have a lovely husband she can trust. But now Rob's gone off sex and treats her more like a flatmate than a lover. When Jill meets a handsome foreigner on the beach, will she take her chance for a bit of fun, or is it a risk not worth taking.

After You

Julie Buxbaum · 368 pages

The complexities of a friendship. The unexplored doubts of a marriage. And the redemptive power of literature...Julie Buxbaum, the acclaimed author of The Opposite of Love, delivers a haunting, gloriously written novel about love, family, and the secrets we hide from each other--and ourselves.It happened on a tree-lined street in Notting Hill to a woman who seemed to have the perfect life. Ellie L

What Alice Forgot

Liane Moriarty · 557 pages

Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine her surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital to find out that she's getting divorced, has three kids, and is actually thirty-nine. Now Alice must reconstruct a lost decade -- and try to reconstruct her life. She has to figure out why her sister hardly talks t

40 Love

Madeleine Wickham · 276 pages

A weekend tennis party becomes study of modern marriage for four very different couples of varying economic, social, and interest levels as together they encounter two days of anger, shock, revelations, and romance.

The wedding

Nicholas Sparks · 258 pages

City of Friends

Joanna Trollope · 336 pages

The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, wait

More Than Friends

Barbara Delinsky · 483 pages

Close friends, the Maxwell and Pope families reside in a "perfect" suburban neighborhood, but their idyllic lives are unexpectedly shattered by a moment that can never be erased.

All Your Perfects

Colleen Hoover · 336 pages

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us--whose writing is "emotionally wrenching and utterly original" (Sarah Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of the Pretty Little Liars series)--delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it. Quinn and Graham's perfect love is threatened by their imperfect mar

Bird in Hand

Christina Baker Kline

Four people, two marriages, one lifelong friendship: everything is about to changeIt was an accident. It was dark, it was raining, Alison had only had two drinks. And the other car ran the stop sign. But Alison finds herself trapped under the crushing weight of grief and guilt, feeling increasingly estranged from her husband . . .Charlie, who has his own burdens. He's in a job he doesn't love so t

Movie Star by Lizzie Pepper

Hilary Liftin · 352 pages

When her marriage to a Hollywood mega-star is over, actress Lizzie Pepper, America's Girl Next Door, decides to tell her side of the story and, in doing so, realizes that her romance wasn't what she and everyone else thought.

The Mermaid Chair

Sue Monk Kidd · 335 pages

It's about a woman named Jessie Sullivan who has to return to her former home Egret island to take care of her mother. Within a monastery resides a chair carved with mermaids that supposedly was dedicated to a mermaid.Jessie meet a monk and falls for him although she is already married.....

Terms of Endearment

Larry McMurtry · 410 pages

Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around her, including a string of devoted suitors. Widowed and overprotective of her daughter, Aurora adapts at her own pace until life sends two enormous challenges her way: Emma’s hasty marriage and subsequent battle with cancer.

Love the One You're With

Emily Giffin · 347 pages

A chance encounter forces one woman to question her decisions, her marriage, and herself.

Sing You Home

Jodi Picoult · 466 pages

A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious

All Summer Long

Dorothea Benton Frank

Smoke

Catherine McKenzie · 342 pages

An evocative tale of two women navigating the secrets and lies at the heart of a wildfire threatening their town. After a decade long career combating wildfires, Elizabeth has traded in her former life for a quieter one with her husband. Now she works as the local arson investigator in a beautiful, quaint town in the Rockies. But that tranquil life vanishes when she and her husband agree to divorc

The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year

Sue Townsend · 436 pages

The day her children leave home, Eva climbs into bed and stays there. She's had enough - of her kids' carelessness, her husband's thoughtlessness and of the world's general indifference. Eva's refusal to behave like a dutiful wife and mother soon upsets everyone but she insists on staying in bed. And then the strangest things start to happen. A funny and touching novel from Britain's funniest writ

A Time to Dance

Karen Kingsbury · 336 pages

When they learn that their daughter is getting married, John and Abby postpone their separation only to find their relationship growing stronger through the wedding planning process.

Husband and Wife

Leah Stewart · 344 pages

When novelist Nathan Bennett confesses to his wife, Sarah, right before a friend's wedding that he slept with another woman (his novel is titled Infidelity), Sarah's concerns shift from whether the dress she plans to wear to the wedding makes her look fat to what she will do about her future and that of their two young children, Mattie and Binx.

The Man Who Disappeared

Clare Morrall · 338 pages

'Morrall introduces an ancient, yet fascinating, chestnut: how well can we ever truly know another person? Down at the core, beneath its several layers, THE MAN WHO DISAPPEARED is a well-crafted suspense story: What makes a successful accountant, devoted husband and loving dad turn to white-collar crime, and what happens after he vanishes? Morrall digs beneath the surface to mine psychological nug