The idea of love
By: Louise Dean.
Publisher: New York, N.Y.; Fig Tree
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781905490165; 9781905490172
Subjects: Married people -- Fiction.; Immigrants -- Africa -- Fiction.; Africa -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "When foreign couples with families converge on Provence for a better life, it seems as if sunshine, drinking and partying will create an idyllic little community of like-minded sorts. But compelled to venture far from this Eden, to Africa, two of the couples' lives are changed irrevocably when each begins to doubt themselves, who they are and why they're there." "For Richard, life unravels alarmingly quickly when he loses his marriage, his home, his job in pharmaceutical sales and finally maybe even his mind; for his wife Valerie and for their friends Jeff and Rachel, it's the pursuit of the idea of love that savages what they hold dear and only love itself that grants any enlightenment." "But for the children in the story, the awkward unsettling Maxence and angelic little Maud, The Idea of Love is much simpler ..."--BOOK JACKET.