The Affair: Escape to Lake Como with this year’s most intoxicating and emotionally gripping read

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Hilary Boyd

The Affair

Escape to Lake Como with this year’s most intoxicating and emotionally gripping read

Hilary Boyd

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Penguin Books Ltd
30 November 2021

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Adult & contemporary romance

Escape to the sun-drenched shores of Lake Como in this irresistible story of love, lies and obsession that asks the question, can you ever walk away from an affair?

Connie McCabe longs for the summer where she spends the days leading tours across the continent. But it's on the glamourous shores of Lake Como where she is truly swept away after a much younger man named Jared, falls for her. Despite resisting his advances Connie finds that he's got under her skin. And so begins a long, hot, intoxicating summer where Connie succumbs and breaks her marriage vows. At the end of the season Connie returns home to her husband, wanting to put this affair behind her. But Jared has other ideas. . .

By: Hilary Boyd
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 291g
ISBN: 9781405943901
ISBN 10: 1405943904
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 30 November 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hilary Boyd was a nurse, marriage counsellor and ran a small cancer charity before becoming an author. She has written eight books, including Thursdays in the Park, her debut novel which sold over half a million copies and was an international bestseller. The film rights for Thursdays In The Park have been acquired by Charles Dance, who will be directing and starring.

Reviews for The Affair: Escape to Lake Como with this year’s most intoxicating and emotionally gripping read

A simmering slow-burner full of obsession, drama and complicated relationships * Culturefly * A tension packed read * Bella * Breathless and brilliant * Best * Included in 'The Hot List' * Inside Soap * Praise for Hilary Boyd * - * As canny as Joanna Trollope at observing family life - and better at jokes * Daily Mail * Smart, with true-to-life characters whose dilemmas will tear at your heartstrings * Sunday Mirror * Boyd is terrific at cutting to the quick of modern relationships * Woman & Home *