num_pages: 400
description: These two unique novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare weekend apart in their many years of marriage. Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents, while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. 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. Intimate and insightful yet never sentimental, Happenstance is a profound portrait of a marriage and the differences between the sexes that bring life — and a sense of isolation — into even the most loving of relationships.
language: English
title: Happenstance
titlecomplete: Happenstance
genres: 20th Century, Marriage, Literature, Literary Fiction, Womens, Novels, Fiction, Canada, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 1447
publisher: Random House of Canada, Limited