num_pages: 288
description: Everyone wins this game of literary tennis a comedy of manners about envy in which Wickham skewers the nouveau riche. At their country estate Patrick Chance and his wife host a weekend tennis party. As four couples gather on the sunny terrace it seems obvious who among them is succeeding and who is falling behind. But by the end of the party nothing will be quite as certain. While the couples children amuse themselves with pony rides and rehearsals for a play the adults suffer a series of personal revelations and crises. Wickhams nonstop action reveals at every turn that matters may not be as they seem and in the end one thing is crystal the weekend is about anything but tennis.
language: English
title: 40 Love
publisher: Thomas Dunne Books