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A better man : a novel / Leah McLaren.

by McLaren, Leah.

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HarperAvenue, c2015.

Marital conflict -- Fiction.

Husband and wife -- Fiction.

Families -- Fiction.

Conduct of life -- Fiction.

Self-actualization (Psychology) -- Fiction.

9781443441568 (trade pbk.)

303 p. ; 23 cm.

Every couple has a wish list. Maya wants Nick to come home earlier. To engage with their children. To engage with her. Nick wants a divorce. Having decided that their marriage is over, Nick is determined to leave quickly and with dignity. But when he looks into the financial realities of splitting up, he realizes that more of his hard-earned income than he can handle will go to Maya. Then a mutual friend proposes that Nick improve the marriage in order to end it amicably, because the better father and husband he is, the more self-sufficient Maya becomes and the cheaper his pay-out will be at the end. But as Nick sets out to be a better man, he starts to feel like one. Time with his kids, dinners with his wife, fewer hours in the office has the strange effect of making him happier. As Maya starts to feel appreciated by her husband again, she starts to blossom, to unclench her fists from the parenting reins and start to do things for herself. Nick and Maya feel like they are falling back in love. How odd, how funny, how serendipitous. But if Maya knew what had promoted this marital metamorphosis then it would be war.

Domestic fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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