Instances of the number 3
By: Sally Vickers
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Husbands -- Death -- Fiction; Mistresses -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: When Peter Hansome dies in a car crash he leaves behind a wife and a mistress - but as these women confront their loss death becomes not an end but a beginning. This novel explores the mysterious power of triangles: a man, his wife and his mistress - and two other people he may have known. Bridget Hansome, Shakespeare lover, and Frances Slater, former artist's model, are unconventional women and following Peter's death unexpectedly they become friends. But who is the young Iranian boy who also befriends the two women and comes to live with Peter's widow? And what was Peter's connection to him and to his even more elusive sister?