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A Married Man

by Piers Paul Read · 1979

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John Strickland is a middle-aged barrister with a wife, Clare, and two children. Staying with his parents-in-law at their house in Norfolk, he reads Leo Tolstoy's novella, The Death of Ivan Illych, and this precipitates a mid-life crisis. What has happened to his youthful ideals to do good in the world? What has happened that has made his marriage go stale? It is the period of strikes, political crisis and the `three-day week': Strickland determines to stand as a Labour MP. His ambition is mocked by his wife and, blaming her for his life's stagnation, he starts an affair with another woman.

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