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A better man

Leah McLaren

2015300 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015Grand Central Publishing · ENGISBN 9781455590056
  • 2015Atlantic Books, Limited · ENGISBN 9781782396321
  • 2015Atlantic Books, Limited · 300 pages · ENGISBN 9781782396338
  • 2015HarperAvenue · 303 pages · ENGISBN 9781443441568
  • 2015312 pages · ENGISBN 9781455532513
  • 2020Grand Central Publishing · ENGISBN 9781455532520
  • 2015Atlantic Publisher & Distibutors · 320 pagesISBN 9781782396345

"Every couple has a wish list. Maya wants Nick to come home earlier To engage with their children To engage with her Nick wants. A divorce Having decided that their marriage is over, Nick is determined to leave quickly and with dignity. But when he looks into the financial realities of splitting up, he realizes that more of his hard-earned income than he can handle will go to Maya. Then a mutual friend proposes that Nick improve the marriage in order to end it amicably, because the better father and husband he is, the more self-sufficient Maya becomes and the cheaper his pay-out will be at the end. But as Nick sets out to be a better man, he starts to feel like one. Time with his kids, dinners with his wife, fewer hours in the office has the strange effect of making him happier. As Maya starts to feel appreciated by her husband again, she starts to blossom, to unclench her fists from the parenting reins and start to do things for herself. Nick and Maya feel like they are falling back in love. How odd, how funny, how serendipitous. But if Maya knew what had promoted this marital metamorphosis? Then it would be war. A BETTER MAN is the story of a modern marriage on the rocks, how we constantly change in and out of relationships, and the price of love."--

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ThemesLove
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