Love After Love

Alex Hourston is an advertising strategist turned novelist who won much praise for her first book, In My House. Her second

novel, Love After

Love, is an intense tale of adultery among the chattering classes. Nancy Jansen is a therapist with an idyllic middle-class family lifestyle and a disgustingly perfect husband. Only something isn’t right, and before long she has embarked on an intense affair with Adam, a therapist and old college mate who now shares her offices. Nancy likes to think she can keep everything going if she can just keep the different aspects of her life separate. But inevitably, the strands start to get tangled up, and we’re drawn into an involving psychodrama. Though the book’s subject is a familiar one, it never seems formulaic or predictable. ■