A Perfect Marriage

by Jean Saunders

Robert Jarvis dies from a heart attack, leaving his wife Margaret a widow at 42. Family and friends rally round, but she finds herself increasingly suspicious that her marriage had not been as perfect as it seemed. Six months later she revisits the scene of her honeymoon 25 years earlier. There she meets and becomes attracted to Philip Lefarge, but after a night of passion Margaret is filled with guilt and indecision. Philip's self-assurance and commonsense force her to re-examine her life, and try to come to terms with the betrayal by those whom she trusted most.

242 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Jean Innes was born on 8 February 1932 in London, England, but she have lived in the West Country almost all her life. She married with Geoff Saunders, her childhood sweetheart, and they have three grown up children. She lived in Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, where she wrote full time. She passed away on 3 August 2011, after contracting an illness, after being rushed to Weston General Hospital.

Jean began her career as a magazine writer and had published around 600 short stories. She start to published gothic romance novels under her married name Jean Saunders and her maiden name Jean Innes in the 1970s. In 1980s, she created, to wrote historical romances, two pseudonyms, her most popular, Rowena Summers and Sally Blake. In 1991 her novel, "The Bannister Girls," was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of Year award. In 2004, she began to used the penname Rachel Moore.

She was an active member and enthusiast of Swanwick, the Writers' Summer School, which takes place in Derbyshire, England, every August, she was a committee member several times, and also Vice-Chairman. She was elected the seventeenth Chairman (1993-1995) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. As a member of the Romance Writers of America she had given talks at conferences in various venues of the USA. She was a member of the Crime Writers' Association. She also was a member and past committee member of the West Country Writers' Association.

Reviews

[Christina Rochester · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a quick easy read about a woman whose husband has died and her journey over the following year to rediscover herself. During this year she learns many things about her perfect marriage to Robert and learns to stand on her own two feet.

I really liked that Margaret was able to stand up for herself by the end of the book and be the bigger person; especially when it came to Sarah and John.

I probably wouldn't recommend this as there wasn't too much of a storyline to be gripped by.