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A Woman's Guide to Adultery

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A group of women in their 30's and 40's is enrolled as mature age students in an English course at University. Rose has never been married and is completely against the idea of having affairs with married men, more out of a sense of loyalty to other women than any great moral issue.
Her two closest friends are both involved with married men and are determined to break up the marriages and marry their lovers.Despite her earlier feelings about affairs with married men, Rose falls desperately in love with her tutor, Paul a pompous, predatory academic who enjoys having the devoted attention of his female students as well as the security of his wife...in fact the whole of the faculty and students seems to be sexually involved, within the cloistered atmosphere of the University. Carol Clewlow is a very fine writer and obviously knows exactly just how elating and devastating an affair can be.

Every woman should read this book because it will speak to her soul. Every man should read it because it contains some of the most fundamental truths about women. It's written from the heart and it is simply the best book about the impact of adultery that has ever been published. Witty, intelligent and acessible, you will see yourself or someone you know on every page.Read it in your 20's, live it in your 30's it's a book you won't ever forget.

Everybody at some point or another of their lives have an unhappy love affair, not all of us want to get even, but only Carol as far as I know, has decided to write a book for revenge. And it may be true that happy people don't have a story (I don't remember where I read this), but that doesn't necessarily mean that all unhappy people's stories are literature. Carol's book is a sad, bitter one, a woman's guide to self-pity, self-righteousness, self-whatever. All men in the book are either cold manipulators, or pathetic wimps, or both. Women in the book are either losing in love because they are sensitive, vulnerable as only a woman can be, or winning in love because they become as cold and manipulative and strong as men, only without the condemnation Carol reserves to her poor men's characters. It was an interesting book to read, and I'm not convinced that Carol is a bad writer if she puts her mind and not her bitterness to it, but it was one-sided and predictable to the point of boredom. Better luck next time Carol, both with books AND men.