DIE TAUSCHBÖRSE

Nichtraucherhaushalt. Leichte Leseknicke im Buchrücken. Schnitt leicht angeschmutzt/nachgedunkelt. Ecken und Kanten des Buchcovers leicht angestoßen.

Alfie Budd found the perfect woman with whom to spend the rest of his life - and then lost her. He doesn't believe you get a second chance at love. Returning to the England he left behind during the brief, idyllic time of his marriage, Alfie finds the rest of his world collapsing around him - his parents' marriage, his grandmother's health, his own ambition to be a writer. He takes comfort in a string of pointless, transient affairs with his students at Churchill's Language School, and he tries to learn Tai Chi from an old Chinese man, George Chang. And then one day a young single mother is knocking on his door asking him to help her get an English Literature A Level so that she can return to college. And Alfie's life changes. Will Alfie ever find a family life as strong as the Changs'? Can he give up meaningless sex for a meaningful relationship? And how do you play it when the woman you like has a difficult child who is infatuated with a TV wrestler known as The Slab?

Tony Parsons