Happenstance

Author: Shields, Carol

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 4 May 2021 by World Editions Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 552 pages
141 x 216 x 44 | 686g

These two companion novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare time apart in their many years of marriage. In The Husband's Story, Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents while immobilised by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. In The Wife's Story, Brenda, travelling alone for the first time, is in a strange city grappling with an array of emotions and toying with the idea of an affair.