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Georgie and Peter, very much in love, move to London with their three children. Once there, Georgie's dormant acting career takes off and she wins the role of Dora Jordan in a one-woman show. Dora Jordan was the most famous comic actress of the eighteenth century (she had thirteen illegitimate children, including ten by the future king of England).
As Georgie rehearses for her part, she becomes increasingly drawn to Dora Jordan, who she sees as a working mother with struggles exactly like her own. And when Georgie can no longer fight her attraction to the playwright, she begins an affair with tragic results.
Narrated by Peter, a failed-writer-turned-businessman, My Wife's Affair is about infidelity, passion, duty, and about finally getting what you want and then wanting still more.
Woodruff (Someone Else's Child) leaves not a dry eye in the house in this gripping ode to theater and the love it can command—and crush. Former actress turned restless suburban New Jersey mom-of-three Georgie and her journalist husband, Peter, transplant to London for Peter's new job. There, Georgie finds her way back to the theater and lands a role in a small one-woman production of “Shakespeare's Woman,” playing famous 18th-century British stage actress Dora Jordan. It's a part that consumes Georgie from the start, notes Peter, who achingly chronicles his wife's affair with her part and, eventually, with playwright Piers. Georgie's tour de force as Dora comes from her total recognition of the character—“Two hundred years later and it's exactly the same thing,” Georgie tells Piers—and her life as Dora and as Piers's lover begin to take precedence over her husband and children. Peter's excruciating autopsy of his crumbling marriage is unsparing and relentlessly punishing, but the kicker at the novel's end makes the adultery feel like a cozy little tea party. It's brutal and lovely. (Apr.)
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Jason Mcbride
reviewed My Wife's Affair on April 29, 2010
My Wife's Affair
Ok, this one is going to be a hard one to review and would have much rather reviewed it before I read the final two chapters. It is going to so difficult to explain what I didn't like about this book without giving anything away (which is something I totally dislike in a review) I will try my best!
Good Stuff
Beautifully written, but tragic
The narrator's obvious love for his wife is so beautifully described
The narrator's wife is wonderfully theatrical (although quite the self involved tramp)
The character of Fergus is delightful with his wise comments and constant questions
Painfully uncomfortable and realistic portrayal of a marriage and of the tediousness of being a parent
Portrayal of the life in the theatrical world is fascinating
Historically accurate and makes me want to know more about Dora Jordan
Haunting tale of betrayal, passion and not being satisfied with what you have
Not So Good Stuff
The frickin last two chapters. Let's rip out your heart, stamp on it, and than stamp on it again. Way too depressing for my sensitive nature
I repeat, the last two chapters!
Irritated at times with how much of a drama queen the wife was
What I Learned (some spoilers in this - don't read if you don't want TMI)
Cheating bad -- don't do it! Especially with boring sounding English guys.
My god, I really really want to visit England
Actors are extremely selfish and self involved
I really don't like to read things that involve bad things happening to children (oh never mind, we already know how much I hate that)
Loved the scenes of the play within the story, made me want to see the fictional play
Favorite Quotes and Passages
"We try, we husbands and fathers, we really do. I just want to tell you that. We may not find the perfect triceratops pajamas on sale four months before the birthday"
"Peter, Peter, the world is a girl you're trying to get to sleep with you, and you'll never succeed if you tell her your failures"
"And yet had she known what was going to happen to her, to us, I know she would gladly have traded each moment of passion for decades of the tedium she then so fiercely attacked"
"It is inconceivable to me now that I could stand in a room with this man who in a matter of weeks would be F*****g my wife-who probably was thinking of nothing but that as we talked"
"Oh, Georgie, weren't there already enough of us who adored you? Why did you need one more"
Who Should Read
Not for the sensitive reader due to last 2 chapters
Those with a love for the theatre and English theatrical history
Those enjoy stories of scenes from a life
Not for those who enjoy happy endings
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