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Slippery When Wet
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When Maggie's husband dies in the bed of another woman, she surges out of their stately home. She heads East, towards family wealth, touching down in Bangladesh. A beautiful young man, Sepen, welcomes her at the airport, and shepherds her through the culture shock of his country. As their relationship becomes sexual, he starts to crack her English veneer. When she becomes ill, she needs him. When she grows strong again, she needs him even more. Maggie journeys on to Thailand. In releasing her husband's ashes into the River Kwai, she steps clear of her past. It's too damn stupid to think of Sepen as part of her future. Surely it is! This is an intricate and revealing novel which plays with age, culture, loss and desire to reveal the journeys across those boundaries.
When Maggie's husband dies in the bed of another woman, she surges out of their stately home. She heads East, towards family wealth, touching down in Bangladesh. A beautiful young man, Sepen, welcomes her at the airport, and shepherds her through the culture shock of his country. As their relationship becomes sexual, he starts to crack her English veneer. When she becomes ill, she needs him. When she grows strong again, she needs him even more. Maggie journeys on to Thailand. In releasing her husband's ashes into the River Kwai, she steps clear of her past. It's too damn stupid to think of Sepen as part of her future. Surely it is! This is an intricate and revealing novel which plays with age, culture, loss and desire to reveal the journeys across those boundaries.
352 pages, paperback
First published January 13, 2006
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July 23, 2011
I don't know if I'm at the wrong time in life to appreciate this book to the full, however I found it quite curious and enjoyable. It was a lovely love story that broke down barriers but concludes at a new beginning leaving you with the thought that you make life what you want.
July 14, 2009
This was a delightfully well written book that explored a 60 year old woman's voyage in self-determination, where she breaks free from what is expected to find what her heart desires.
November 8, 2011
The only transita publication that I really disliked.
May 28, 2012
In a word....yawn.
January 5, 2013
The opening is quite funny, but thereafter I'm afraid this gets somewhat too maudlin and a little patronising for my tastes. Sorry Mr Goodman, this isn't one of the best of transita's I've read.
August 6, 2016
Gave up on this half way through as I had no sympathy for the batty main female character who ran off when her husband died
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