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2000s: Is this new relationship too good to be true?
The Women
What you need to know before your trail
Samantha Frayn doesn’t know why Peter Bridges picks her – a nobody with bitten fingernails and a troubled childhood behind her – but she falls quickly. He’s older, charming, likes fine wine and French films, and his beautiful home has real art on its walls.
Peter transforms Samantha’s life in an instant. He sees the better version of herself – the one she’s always wanted to be. It’s only normal that there’s a little friction, when she moves in, over domestic matters like where things are kept. She’s lucky to be with someone like him.
Samantha notices however that there might be consequences to breaking the rules of the world he has so quickly built around her.
Travel Guide
Go on holiday to Rome with The Women
The story starts in London where Peter teaches at the UCL. There he meets the younger and impressionable student and starts an affair. It’s the visit to Rome at the start of the book that provides the setting and themes for the book to come.
Rome – Mouth of Truth
Legend has it that if you put your hand in the mouth of the mask and you are a truthful person by nature, you will be able to take your hand back out again with no problems. If however, the mast snaps shut, trapping your hand with it, you are a liar of the highest order and you may not get your hand back.
The couple in the novel visit Rome but the husband vehemently refuses to put his hand in the Mouth…..wonder why? The rest of this novel tells you why…
Your dear husband will not put his hand in the mouth, in fact he absolutely refuses!
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Women
Destination : Rome, London Author/Guide: S.E. Lynes Departure Time: 2000s
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