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My Favourite Wife
Tony Parsons
HarperCollinsPublishers
For Yuriko, MFW
You see, I loved her. It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.
Lolita
A man with two houses loses his mind. A man with two women loses his soul.
Chinese proverb
Table of Contents
Part Two: The Permanent Girlfriend
Bill must have fallen asleep for a moment. He was jolted awake by the limo hitting a pothole and suddenly there was Shanghai. The towers of Pudong split the night. He rubbed his eyes, and turned to look at his wife and daughter in the back seat.
Holly, their four-year-old, was sleeping with her head in her mother’s lap, blonde curls tumbling across her face, dressed like some sort of Disney princess. He wasn’t sure which one.
‘She can’t be comfortable in that,’ he said, keeping his voice down. Holly had been awake, or sleeping fitfully, for most of the flight.
Becca, his wife, carefully removed the child’s tiara. ‘She’s fine,’ she said.
‘Foreigners