num_pages: 320
description: After more than half a century of marriage, Dorothy and George are embarking on their first journey abroad together. Three decades younger, Jan and Annemieke are taking their last, as illness and incompatibility bring their unhappy union to an end. At first the luxury of a Caribbean resort is no match for the well-worn patterns of domestic life. Then the couples' paths cross, and a series of surprises ensues--a disappearance and an assault, most dramatically, but also a teapot tempest of passions, slights, misunderstandings, and small awakenings that punctuate a week in which each pair struggles to come to terms with what's been keeping them apart. A hit with readers and critics alike when it was published in England last year, Becoming Strangers is a different kind of love story, in which there's seldom a happy ending but sometimes a chance to redeem a life half-lived. 
language: English
title: Becoming Strangers
titlecomplete: Becoming Strangers
genres: British Literature, Novels, Marriage, Love, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 557
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Betty Trask Award
publisher: Mariner Books