The Unfaithful Wife [Hardcover]

Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print; Large type edition edition
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0263145751
• ISBN-13: 978-0263145755
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,311,687 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 45 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save yourself the hassle .............., August 10, 2005

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Bookworm - Ash (London) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Unfaithful Wife (Hardcover)

Did i read the same book?! I'm only rating this a one because their isn't a 'straight to scrap heap category'

For those of you haven't read the Unfaithful Wife - STEER CLEAR - i can't see anything redeeming about this book, the heroine is a candidate for a Women's Refuge..

- the H had slept with other women when he married the h, he basically left her in exile to live an empty life with him for five years, during this time she had to put up with snide looks from colleagues at his dinners and she didn't know what she had done. When she actually thinks she's in love with someone else (of course she isn't and doesn't sleep with him) - he forces her into a physical relationship - now that he (His Lordship) is ready to be married to her. There is no grovelling from him (even though i still wouldn't have liked him) he constantly tells her he knows she loves him and still treats her like crap - at the end she finds out it was because her father had blackmailed him into it. His excuse for sleeping with other women and not her - well - he didn't want to sleep with her and cheat on her. He never even spoke to her about why he was that way with her and the author just created a wimp for him to use as a bashing board.

An opinion you may have is that because they didn't consumate their marriage it wasn't really infidelity on his part - (the marriage taking place wasn't enough....) now okay fine the 'sleeping with other women' is enough to put me off in itself but the fact that he put the woman he so-called loved (during all that time) in a position where she had to take the humiliation and innuendos from his guests during those five LONG years - makes it even worse (is this a man you could like? can he really be that cruel and not see it?) and then this H had the gall to feel enraged when pictures of her and this other man were nearly printed in the paper. The author then tries to give the impression that his affairs were discreet and just hinted at by his guests, he doesn't even so much as open his mouth to grovel for her at the end - and then the author or Harlequin - rub salt on the wound by friggin thinking of THAT TITLE!

- it really was the most awful book - just in case i didn't give you that idea..!

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I've read this book a dozen times and never tire of it!, January 22, 2002

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Tina Richardson (Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unfaithful Wife (Harlequin Presents Plus, No 1779) (Paperback)

This was the first by Lynne Graham that I ever read. I immediateley began searching for more! From the very beginning I was enthralled by Leigh (the heroine)and Nik,the sexy Greek husband she fell for the moment she saw him!
At seventeen, Leigh marries Nik Andreakis thinking that he is marrying her for shares in her father's shipping line. Five years pass and Leigh, now in love with another man, decides it's time for a divorce. After all, thier marriage isn't a real one and he lives the adulturer's dream existence. Leigh then finds that there never were any shipping shares...and after five years, Nik has other ideas for this marriage than divorce...

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Enjoyable Read, December 2, 1999

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Avid Reader "dswhung" (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Unfaithful Wife (Harlequin Presents Plus, No 1779) (Paperback)

The hero is a rich, suave, handsome and gorgeous hunk and the heroine ( as always in Lynne Graham's books) is a sweet, beautiful and wimpy virgin. There is a misunderstanding which prevents the hero from openly admitting his love for her and instead, treating her with cold disdain because he hates the idea of being forced into marriage with the heroine although he's in love with her. The chemistry between them is actually very strong and there is great sexual tension. Later, the love scenes are very passionate. The plot is more refreshing and credible than the writer's other stories and mosre satisfying.