The Man Who Falls In Love With His Wife

John Franklin thinks he has a perfect marriage… until he looks more closely at it.

Elizabeth Franklin, a creative director at an ad agency, is such a charmer that nobody minds she’s controlling everything. 

John starts to wonder where she goes when she goes out. He glances at her datebook, sees a tiny letter r in several places.

Apparently, John agreed to terms he doesn’t remember discussing.

When Elizabeth was twelve, her father left her mother, devastating the woman’s life. Now she’s an elderly alcoholic, there to remind Elizabeth what love can do to a woman. Elizabeth won’t let it happen to her. She has carefully created a life where she’ll be safe.

John says: don’t worry, you can always depend on me.

When he starts to strip away her defenses, Elizabeth struggles with whether she should accept this. Elizabeth asks her secretary, “Suppose a man says he loves you completely, he wants you to drop everything and go to Alaska…Do you go??”

Elizabeth asks her two best girlfriends, “Can a husband pay too much attention?” The other women act as if she’s crazy. Both say, “Give me some of that!”

John and Elizabeth have many friends, relatives, and clients with their own romantic difficulties. Some turn out well, some are tragic. This novel is a bittersweet look at love and what people will—and won’t—do for love.

Well written, often funny, often sad, The Man Who Falls In Love With His Wife is a literary original.

Genre: literary fiction (not chick lit)

Tags: love, family, marriage, infidelity, divorce, intrigue, romantic triangles, jealousy, sanity, Manhattan professionals, East Side sophistication, advertising agency, law firm, Ivy League, 1990s, feminism, letting go, mid-life crisis
 

Bio: Bruce Deitrick Price is the author of seven books, an artist, and a poet. He writes widely about education reform and founded Improve-Education.org in 2005. His literary site is Lit4u.com.