[This is a short review I wrote in 2007]

**Segal writes so well - easy to get drawn into this novel**

Great writing style, as always with Segal, but the story's a bit far-fetched. It feels as though Segal's story has simplified a very complex and difficult situation, involving infidelity in marriage. However, he's a great storyteller, always a good read & I enjoyed it, but nothing's as good as "Love Story". ( )

narrativa cuyo tema detonador es la infidelidad. ( )

La migliore amica di Bob Bekwith è Sheila,sua moglie: per quattordici anni hanno vissuto e affrontato tutto insieme, in costante adorazione l'uno dell'altro. Completano le loro vite le figlie, Paula e Jessica. L'anno accademico è appena finito e Bob ha presenziato all'ultima riunione della facoltà e Cape Cod li attende per una lunga estate. Ma una telefonata basta a sconvolgere la loro esistenza. Quando Jean-Claude, un bambino di dieci anni, arriva per passare le vacanze con loro, ecco che Bob e Sheila, infelici e travagliati, vivono ormai come entità separate le loro rispettive tragedie. Persino Paula e Jessica, felici di quel nuovo compagno di giochi non riescono a sfuggire del tutto dalla bufera. Tutti fanno del loro meglio affinché la pace domestica venga ristabilita. Ma solo una persona può far si che il miracolo si compia

10 yr. little illeg. french child

From Eric Segal comes an unforgettable story of love....the drama of a father and the son he never knew... And a marriage that must stand the greatest test of all. Man, Woman And Child. Bob and Sheila Beckwith had everything: rewarding careers, two wonderful daughters, and a perfect marriage... almost perfect. for what Sheila didn't know was that Bob has once been unfaithful-only once, ten years ago during a business trip to France. What Bob didn't know was that his brief affair produced a son. Now a tragic accident-and one fateful phone call-will change Bob and Sheila's life forever...

In another unforgettable story of love by the author of Love Story comes the story of a father and the son he never knew...And a marriage that must withstand the greatest test of all.

Robert and Sheila Beckwith had everything: rewarding careers - Robert as a statistics professor and Sheila as an editor for a distinguished publishing house; two wonderful, precocious daughters - twelve-year-old Jessica and nine-year-old Paula - and a marriage that was almost...perfect. For there was one thing thing that Sheila didn't know - that while on a business trip to France a decade before, Bob had been unfaithful to her. It had only happened one time, and was never repeated...

However, what Bob never realized was that his brief affair had produced a son. Now a tragic accident - and one fateful phone call - will change Bob and Sheila Beckwith's life forever...

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. It was incredibly poignant and compulsively readable - although, I must say that I found the ending both satisfactory - and decidedly unsatisfactory - all at once. I was absolutely enthralled by this story. In my opinion, this was truly an excellent book - I give it an A+! ( )