SERIAL MONOGAMY

Alternating between Sharon's modern day and Nelly's Victorian England, Serial Monogamy is a surprising, intricate family story about marriage and infidelity in two lushly distinct eras, featuring well-known literary characters and substantial emotional gravitas - a treasure to be discovered by readers of The Hours and the perfect book club read.

In modern day Toronto, Sharon Soleymani is a successful writer of women's fiction. Her husband, a charismatic professor of English Lit, has just informed her that he is sleeping with Shay, one of his graduate students and plans to leave her. This modern day story of one relationship's dissolution is set against that of Charles Dickens's infamous affair, the narratives weaving together to pose provocative questions about the fragility of love and our transgressions in its name in this moving account of what it means to love for better or worse, in sickness and in health. With its compelling scenario, well-known literary characters and emotional gravitas, Serial Monogamy is a treasure to be discovered by readers of The Paris Wife, Loving Frank and The Hours.

Kate Taylor is the author of A Man in Uniform and the bestselling Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen, which won the Commonwealth Best First Book Prize (Canada/Caribbean region), the Toronto Book Award and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for Fiction