I read about Susy McPhee's debut novel in The Bookseller a couple of weeks ago. I looked it up on Amazon and it featured the cover on the right. I've just looked it up again this morning and found, instead, the cover on the left.
They're not massively different, but the bright (rather than pastel) colours look much more modern to me and I'd be much more likely to pick up the book. Would you?
Covers aside, what's the book about?
There are some people you'd do anything for...For Fran that list would
include her husband, Max, her daughter, and her best friend, Alison.
Only Alison is now desperately ill and she needs Fran's help. She wants
to find her husband a new wife, and leave her young daughter with a new
mother. Fran finds the whole idea deeply uncomfortable, but it's hard
to refuse your closest friend at the best of times, let alone ignore
her dying wishes.
So Fran reluctantly logs on to an internet dating
site, where she stumbles across a startlingly familiar profile.
'Footloose' describes himself as divorced, but his photo looks exactly
like Fran's husband, Max. What's a wife to do when she suspects her
husband's cheating and can't bear to confront him outright? Posing as
'Sassy', Fran sends a reply to 'Footloose' and sets out to date her own
husband...But this increasingly crazy plan leads Max to start to have
doubts of his own. Torn between suspicion and love, life for Fran just
got very complicated - can her marriage survive?
Ooh, sounds interesting!
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