Temptation

Wow! This was a random pick. I didn't know anything about Bolger before, but now I want to keep on reading him. I was very impressed by the way he, a man, could portrait a woman so well. The story is very good. Alison, a woman aged 38 and a mother of three, goes with her family for week's vacation to Fitzgerald's hotel, as they've done for years and years. But this year will be different. Her husband has to go back to deal with a job crisis, and Alison is left with the kids. One of the other guests at the hotel is a man who was very much in love with her twenty years ago, about the same time she met her husband. Now, the other man is a widower. So while her husband is away, Alison spends time on her own (with three kids, well...) and evaluates her life and marriage, all the while bumping into the other man. Is her life good? Is she happy? How would it be different? What about her husband, is he cheating on her? Should she leave him?I think Bolger raises very interesting questions about love and marriage and self-fulfilment - is it at all possible to achieve? Not easy questions, and very open answers. I love this book! I picked it up and then had to keep reading til it was finished. Now I'm going to try more of Bolger's work.