Monday 10th March
18:00 - 19:00
Fiction
£7/£6
Mega-selling novelist Tony Parsons follows Man and Boy and Man and Wife, among others, with My Favourite Wife, a sizzling Shanghai tale of sex, romantic struggles and second wives. Hot-shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move with their daughter to booming Shanghai: land of opportunity and temptation, where fortunes are made and foreign marriages come apart. Bill’s firm houses the family in Paradise Mansions – a luxury block full of 'second wives': beautiful young women like JinJin Li, ex–school teacher, crossword addict, dedicated roller-skater and the Holdens’ neighbour. After Becca witnesses a near-tragedy, she returns temporarily to London with Holly – and Bill and JinJin are thrown together.