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Becoming strangers

After more than half a century of marriage, Dorothy and George are embarking on their first journey abroad together. Three decades younger, Jan and Annemieke are taking the last in their tumultuous union. At first the luxury of a Caribbean resort is no match for the habits of domestic life.

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  • "After more than half a century of marriage, Dorothy and George are embarking on their first journey abroad together. Three decades younger, Jan and Annemieke are taking the last in their tumultuous union. At first the luxury of a Caribbean resort is no match for the habits of domestic life."@en
  • "After more than half a century of marriage, Dorothy and George are embarking on their first journey abroad together. Three decades younger, Jan and Annemieke are taking their last, as illness and incompatibility bring their unhappy union to an end. At first the luxury of a Caribbean resort is no match for the well-worn patterns of domestic life. Then the couples' paths cross, and a series of surprises ensues--a disappearance and an assault, most dramatically, but also a teapot tempest of passions, slights, misunderstandings, and small awakenings that punctuate a week in which each pair struggles to come to terms with what's been keeping them apart. A hit with readers and critics alike when it was published in England last year, Becoming Strangers is a different kind of love story, in which there's seldom a happy ending but sometimes a chance to redeem a life half-lived."@en
  • "Jan and Annemieke are going on their last holiday together, their love dissolving in middle age. Thirty years their senior, Dorothy and George are on one of their first. When these four people meet on an island in the Caribbean, they find more than an escape from their daily existence. They discover that it's not too late to save the rest of their lives."@en
  • "Two long-married, but unhappy, couples from England try to revitalize their relationships in the Caribbean in what may be their trip together."@en
  • "Separately, two couples go on their last holidays together. Together, they discover what's been keeping them apart. This is Louise Dean's first novel."
  • "Jan has been dying for six years, bringing his unhappy marriage with Annemieke to an end in middle age. Their sons have given them one last gift, a holiday in the Caribbean. Dorothy and George had also been given a holiday, by their granddaughter. In pristine surroundings, the two couples are unable to escape their troubles, until a few chance events allow them to make something out of the ashes of their love."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Love stories"
  • "Romance fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en

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  • "Xing tong mo lu"
  • "Becoming Strangers"
  • "行同陌路"
  • "Becoming strangers"
  • "Becoming strangers"@en
  • "Becoming strangers : [a novel]"