Harry Silver returns to face life in the "blended family." A wonderful new 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.

Jeden z największych bestsellerów rynku brytyjskiego ostatnich lat, porównywany do Dziennika Bridget Jones, ale pisanego z męskiego punktu widzenia. Powieść pełna błyskotliwych dialogów, dowcipna, wzruszająca, pobudzająca do śmiechu, ale i do łez.Narrator, Harry Silver, ma doskonałą pracę w telewizji, piękną, kochającą żonę i wspaniałego syna. Przeświadczony iż w dniu trzydziestych urodzin bezpowrotnie skończy się jego młodość, decyduje się na nierozważny krok – seks z koleżanką z pracy. I traci wszystko. Wyrzucony z pracy, opuszczony przez Ginę, która nie umie wybaczyć mu zdrady i jest zdecydowana realizować własne ambicje zawodowe, musi sam zająć się czteroletnim Patem. Stopniowo dojrzewa do roli ojca, odkrywając iż dopiero sprawdziwszy się w niej, staje się w pełni mężczyzną. Pomaga mu to naprawić stosunki z własnym tatą – bohaterem wojennym, człowiekiem twardym, prostolinijnym, przy tym wielkiego serca. W jego życiu pojawia się nowa miłość. Nieoczekiwanie Gina powraca – i pragnie odzyskać swojego syna…

New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life, and then lost her. He doesn't believe you get a second chance at love. Returning to the England he left behind during the brief, idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie finds the rest of his world collapsing around him. He takes comfort in a string of pointless, transient affairs with his students at Churchill's Language School, and he tries to learn Tai Chi from an old Chinese man, George Chang. Will Alfie ever find a family life as strong as the Changs'? Can he give up meaningless sex for a meaningful relationship? And how do you play it when the woman you like has a difficult child who is infatuated with a TV wrestler known as The Slab? Like his runaway bestseller, Man and Boy, Tony Parsons's new novel is full of laughter and tears, biting social comment and overwhelming emotion.