Wives and Lovers

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<b>A sincere&nbsp;and&nbsp;compassionate novel about the complications of married life,&nbsp;and&nbsp;the love, loathing, pain, loyalty, disappointments&nbsp;and&nbsp;friendship that grow out of a marriage<br>&nbsp;</b> <br>Channel City, California, is a an average coastal town where everyone is doing their best to get by&nbsp;and&nbsp;be respectable, from the sun-grizzled fishermen on the wharf to the perfectly coifed society&nbsp;wives&nbsp;to the over-fed gophers who plague every middle-class garden. But in the hot summer of 1954, one unhappy man's extramarital affair turns the community on its head.&nbsp;<br><br>Hazel Anderson, a dental assistant, is a contentedly divorced forty-something whose ex-husband, George, runs the town's wharf bar. Hazel worries about George, who is smitten with a much younger woman, Ruby, who won't have anything to do with him,&nbsp;and&nbsp;Hazel thinks Ruby is hiding secrets of her own. The dentist Hazel assists, Gordon Foster, works hard to support his wife&nbsp;and&nbsp;three children in their middle-class lifestyle, but he can never satisfy his wife, Elaine, who has always resented being married to a dentist instead of a &quot;real&quot; doctor. All of these relationships become tangled when henpecked Gordon's romantic indiscretion comes to light.&nbsp;<br><br>Here, in this sweet, sad,&nbsp;and&nbsp;incisive literary novel, Margaret Millar accomplishes the same feat as she has with her award-winning crime fiction by offering readers a fascinating snapshot of life as it was, not life as we like to remember it having been.