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An Englishman's Guide to Infidelity: Love, betrayal and genteel crime by [Campbell, Stuart]

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Jack, the owner of a failing bookshop, is embezzling from a client. Thea is a philosophy lecturer with a taste for pinching cash. There's something amiss with their marriage, but an occasional spot of larceny provides the frisson to keep it going, as well as the funds for the kids' school fees. But things start to go badly wrong when an old lover turns up demanding a slice of the action. Could you live with a would-be murderer? This is the question for Thea and Jack in this fast-moving psychological drama with an undercurrent of black comedy.

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Stuart Campbell is a former Professor of Linguistics who nowadays writes quirky novels about betrayal, love and redemption. A Londoner by birth, he has lived in Sydney for many years.

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File Size: 780 KB
Print Length: 243 pages
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Publisher: Stuart Campbell; 2 edition (17 December 2014)
Sold by: Amazon Australia Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B00R63GXW8
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Margaret

A Page Turner

7 April 2015

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A page turner with complex characters and a slowly unfolding plot. It kept me intrigued to the end.

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Francis Guenette

A highly enjoyable mystery that plumbs the depths of human foibles

11 January 2016

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People see the world through personal and often flawed lenses. A good author leads the reader into a character’s thoughts and actions. At some point, the reader is forced to question the characters take on what’s happening. In, An Englishman’s Guide to Infidelity, Stuart Campbell proves himself to be particularly deft in his ability to create unreliable narrators.

The book opens with Jack and Thea as they prepare for a dinner out to celebrate their wedding anniversary. It isn’t long before it is patently obvious that dark currents lurk beneath the surface of both these people. By the end of the first chapter any illusions of normalcy are long gone. Thea is clearly an ethics professor who lacks ethics and Jack is relating that there are ten university degrees among his fellow group of inmates awaiting trial at the Remand Center.

And so the reader enters a roller-coaster ride as the author moves deftly from Jack’s perspective, to that of a young police woman struggling with her own issues when she is pulled into a murder investigation, to Thea’s. It isn’t long before the reader comes to see that not one of these characters can be trusted.

The writing is smooth and delicious. A couple of old people move like a pair of flapping galleons; a father speaks like a piece of stainless steel medical equipment, when he speaks at all; an apartment is sparsely furnished with desperately modern pieces and abstract paintings that veered between the decorative and the sadomasochistic.

A thoroughly enjoyable read, a mystery that unfurls with just enough twists and turns to keep readers guessing right to the closing pages.

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Rod McDonald

A very satisfying read

31 July 2016

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A handful of themes, nicely threaded together: part mystery, part whodunnit, part a depiction of an interesting relationship - and not only that, but unlike so many books and plays, it knew how to end.

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KARMA

1 March 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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If I were an English teacher recording a letter grade for an essay, this book would be a B+. The language is flowing and paints great pictures.

The problem for me as the reader of a story is that I did not,at first, appreciate the pictures being drawn. I found myself not being able to empathize with two of the three main characters. Judgment often gets in the way of understanding. When I removed the "beam" in my eye I could better appreciate the "mote"s in theirs. That's when I started to value this author and his book.

The characters all have secrets (some of which are shared directly and some discerned by others indirectly.) Those with secrets sometimes do not want to know others secrets . To quote the book "We didn’t speak explicitly about what had changed that evening, although when we talked months later about it we each had our own metaphors. “I felt like we were stunt actors shattering a glass door,” I said. Thea said, “For me it was as if we were bungy jumping”. Hmm, perhaps. On reflection I think we invented those metaphors, but we both knew that we'd crossed into an unfamiliar land."

In my opinion, this is not a "take to the beach" read. I could not skim the story or I missed out on clues I would need later on. I am very glad I invested my time with this story and author. The book does not have a "and they lived happily ever after" ending but left me thinking and hoping for the future.

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LOL

What’s inside the human heart?

8 January 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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LOVED this book. It's my humble opinion the author has a best seller here. It sort of reminded me of "Gone Girl." The writing is brilliant in both books, but this story is so much better and more satisfying than the pointless mishmash that is "Gone Girl."

A fascinating tale I couldn’t put down. Told from three very unique points of view. Two deaths. Murders? Or accidents? It depends on who’s talking. An intriguing riddle that keeps you rooting first for one, then another, and yet another. Others have summarized, so I won’t do so here. I highly recommend this wonderfully entertaining puzzle.

4 people found this helpful.

Ann Massey (Perth, Australia)

Utterly Absorbing

29 March 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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"An Englishman’s Guide to Infidelity" is a clever, witty novel about a foolhardy middleclass couple struggling to keep their heads above water who take a step into the dark side of life. The book is a page turner, but it is Campbell’s realistically, funny portrait of a man struggling to do the right thing by his wife and family which touched me. I haven’t read a better novel about the cloistered world of a university town since Tom Sharpe’s "Porterhouse Blue".

4 people found this helpful.

Helena Ameisen

A fast paced descent from middle-class mediocrity into criminality and so much more.

20 January 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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Another fabulous, cleverly-written novel by Stuart Campbell. I was engaged from start to finish, relishing the descent of ordinary people into the seamier side of life that slips beyond their control into unimagined complications and implications with surprising consequences. A riveting whodunit, told from three perspectives, Campbell has won me over once again with his intrigue and dark humour and beautifully wrought descriptions of quirky characters, an English university town....and ah, that dress...."the muted sheen of the fabric, the harmony of magenta and charcoal grey, the way it hugged her body like a slinky second skin..."..."making love with the passion of twenty year olds and the knowledge of forty year olds."
There's something to delight everyone in this fast paced novel. I highly recommend it. Can't wait to see what he puts out next !

3 people found this helpful.

Ion

This book was recommended to me by a friend

8 December 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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This book was recommended to me by a friend. I'm not an avid reader of fiction but thought I'd take this one on. From the start, I was engrossed and found it to be one of those "can't put it down" books. I put aside my morning swim routine for a couple of days to keep up with the action in the book!
There are twists and turns and occasional laughs. The dialogue between the characters was often beautifully scripted. One encounter towards the end of the book between Fiona and Thea, two women sizing each other up, was nothing short of brilliant.
The plot was cleverly constructed and the reader is drip fed more and more information to put the whole picture together.
All in all, a great read.

2 people found this helpful.

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