Tap cover to enlarge

Invitation to the Married Life

Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
Rating
Pages
340

About This Book

The married couples in this book have two things in common: a skill in the duplicity that flourishes even in happy marriages, and an invitation to the Farthingoes' ball.



In the months preceding the party, we learn something of their double lives: the faces that each one exposes to their spouses and to the world give little hint of their complex and secret tribulations. By the time they arrive at the ball, each clutching his or her different hopes and fears, we have become familiar with their unsmooth paths, and shared many a humorous escapade or private tragedy with Rachel and Thomas, Mary and Bill, Ursula and Martin, Frances and Toby, as well as the alluring R. Cotterman and the only questing bachelor, Ralph.



Sophisticated, sympathetic, witty and razor-sharp in its observations of the sub-text of married life, this is a wonderfully accomplished and enjoyable novel which develops totally out of the characters it creates.

Genres & Themes

Buy This Book

Formats & Editions

Browse the different covers, formats, and publication history for this title.

Paperback

Paperback edition cover
Trade Paperback
Aug 2012 Bloomsbury (UK) ISBN 1448200156
Buy

Hardcover

Hardcover edition cover
Hardcover
Nov 1992 Grove Press ISBN 0802114652
Buy
Hardcover edition cover
Hardcover
Oct 1998 Random House (UK) ISBN 1856190471
Buy

eBook

eBook edition cover
eBook
Nov 2011 Bloomsbury Reader ISBN B00606NRLM
Buy
eBook edition cover
eBook
Nov 2011 Bloomsbury ISBN 1448201470
Buy

Audio

Audio edition cover
Audio Cassette
Jan 1998 ISIS Audio Books ISBN 0753100800
Buy
Audio edition cover
Audible
Feb 2013 Audible Studios ISBN B00BFXPQ3C
Buy
Audio edition cover
MP3 CD
Jul 2016 Brilliance Audio ISBN 1531841406
Buy

Large Print

Large Print edition cover
Paperback
Nov 1996 Chivers ISBN 0745137490
Buy