THE SECOND WIFE Author:ELIZABETH BUCHAN The Rules currently governing my life are these... — Rule number one: there is no justice. — Rule number two: contrary to a husband's hopes, a second wife does not have the Kama Sutra tucked into her handbag. It is more likely to be aspirin. — Rule number three: never complain, particularly if you have been instrumental in demonstrating... more » Rule number one.
Rule number four: never serve liver or tofu. It is not clever.
So Says Minty Lloyd as she struggles to make her life work as Nathan's second wife. Mother to six-year-old twins, sidelined at family gatherings by Nathan's hostile family, ostracized by his friends, she is haunted by the shadow of the glowing, succesful Rose - Nathan's first wife. "The trouble is," she concludes, "everything I do is second-hand." Yet - such is the curious nature of fate - Minty finds herself united in loss with an unexpected ally - the woman she once betrayed.« less