Marion Cole, a thirty-nine-year-old woman-- and a faithful wife for twenty-two years--has an affair with a sixteen-year-old boy; she then leaves her philandering husband. And also abandons her four-year-old daughter, Ruth. Condition: Small rip on the paperback cover in upper left corner, gently used, no marks / highlighting 034543479X 10.2 ounces 592 pages A Ballentine Book ; 1998 Manufactured in the USA