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"Matt Webster, a 31-year-old London theatre critic, comes home one January evening to find his wife Kath has disappeared. Only after anxiously phoning friends and acquaintances does he find a note saying she is leaving him. He can't believe that she would abandon him and their four-year-old son, Josh.
He finds a babysitter when he returns to work after leave of absence, and his widowed father from Yorkshire comes to help. Most of the family and friends around him could hardly be nicer, apart from his mother-in-law, who tells him tactlessly that he is not coping and she wants to take Josh to live with her and his grandfather.
The ever-solicitous Louise, Kath's best friend, is equally thunderstruck at what has happened and her own marriage has hit a difficult patch. Beth, a potentially man-eating theatrical agent from Washington DC who came to London to get away from her ex, has no children or other ties to hold her back. Both women make it clear that they'd like to get closer to him, and are irritated that he seems unable to move on. He spends a weekend in Italy with Beth, but their affair is shattered by a call from Louise to say Matt's father-in-law has died, and he needs to return home for what promises to be a rather tense gathering of family and friends at the funeral.
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John Van der Kiste, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Tone of book?
- very sensitive (sigh)
Time/era of story
- 1980's-1999
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Kind of romance:
- marriage/relationship going to pieces
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- journalist
Age:
- 20's-30's
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Female
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- homemaker
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- England/UK
- Italy
Misc setting
- fancy mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Amount of dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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