Liz Sagues
Tony Parsons thriller Your Neighbours Wife is published by Century
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Writers may, on occasion, be asked to eat their words. But drink them? Surely not.
Yet it could be said that was what happened to best-selling author Tony Parsons last Friday (Feb 26), in the online company of wine expert Susy Atkins. Many glassfuls of wine are consumed in Parsons' latest thriller,
Your Neighbour's Wife (Century), a multi-twisted tale of the fatal consequences of one ill-judged night in an otherwise idyllic marriage.
Prosecco is a meaningful word in the secret language of Tara and Christian Carver, and makes its appearance in the first and last sentences of the book in which they are the principal characters. There is champagne, too, cast in a more ominous role .