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conversations.value: Do you know a description for a book titled My Husband's Wife about Jane, Sunday, Times with the genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Thrillers & Suspense?
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conversations.value: the author is a former magazine journalist who spent three years working as the writer-in-residence of a high security prison for men. She had never been inside a jail before and this often hair-raising experience helped inspire her debut psychological thriller, the Sunday Times bestseller My Husband's Wife. Until recently, Jane was a tutor in creative writing at Oxford University, and she now runs writing workshops in her local area of Devon and speaks at literary festivals all over the world. She has three grown up children and writes the 'Diary of a First-Time Grandmother' column for the Daily Telegraph.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about Jane, Koestler, Awards, writing.
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conversations.value: the author is a former magazine journalist who spent three years working as the writer-in-residence of a high security prison for men. She had never been inside a jail before and this often hair-raising experience helped inspire her debut psychological thriller, the Sunday Times bestseller My Husband's Wife. Jane is a regular life story judge for the Koestler Awards given to prisoners for art and writing. Until recently, Jane was a tutor in creative writing at Oxford University, and she now runs writing workshops in her local area of Devon and speaks at literary festivals all over the world. She has three grown up children and writes the 'Diary of a First-Time Grandmother' column for the Daily Telegraph.
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conversations.value: Do you know the first five paragraphs for this book?
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conversations.value: My Husband's Wife
  Great efforts have been made to ensure that I have described the legal world correctly and also given a fair representation of those on the autistic spectrum. It was very kind of the following to give up their time in this respect: Richard Gibbs, Ian Kelcey of Kelcey and Hall Solicitors and Advocates, the Law Society in London, Peter Bennett, the National Autistic Society and Dr. Elizabeth Soilleux. It should be pointed out that HMP Breakville is not modeled on the prison where I was writer in residence for three years. "My" jail gave me an insight into a world which I could never have imagined without venturing through those daunting gates.
  Writers are renowned for needing solitude but they also need like-minded friends. Among these, I would like to single out novelists Kate Furnivall, Bev Davies, Rosanna Ley, the Freelance Media Group and the fabulous Prime Writers. I know how time-consuming this can be and I am very grateful.
  Thanks, too, to all my readers. I really appreciate you—especially when you e-mail with lovely comments! I've made some wonderful friends this way.
  Finally, I'd like to sign off with praise to the age-old institution of marriage. That wedding ring can lead to some extraordinary situations, as my heroine Lily is about to find out. I hope you enjoy meeting her.
  He's pouring out his favorite breakfast cereal. Rice Krispies. Usually I like them, too. As a child, I was obsessed by the elfin-faced figures on the packet, and the magic hasn't quite left.
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conversations.value: Do you know four more paragraphs?
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conversations.value: Some of these questions might be normal in a very young child. But as Tom grew older, they became increasingly inappropriate. It was exhausting. But Mum's suggestion saved us. Tom moved to Mum and Dad's in Devon by the sea. There was a school down the road where my brother and I had gone. They'd had more "special children" like him since then, the head told us brightly. We mustn't worry. And Ed and I would come down every weekend to see him. Since Tom had been born, my mother seemed to mourn Daniel less. She had another mission now: her grandson. "It's amazing," said Dad gratefully, "to see the effect that Tom has had on us all. I mean, I know he's not easy but he seems to have brought us all together."
  Much as I hate to admit it, Tom's absence also gave Ed and me a chance to be a couple again. There was time to talk over meals. To lie on the sofa in the evenings, my legs wrapped around his in companionable silence. To rediscover each other's bodies in one bedroom. I can't say it was—or is—wildly passionate. But it's comfortable. Loving.
  Ironically, my career has blossomed since Tom's birth. To my delight, I was made a partner on the back of my continued success after the Joe Thomas case, which led to a cluster of settlements throughout the country and a change in the law on health and safety. Our contribution has gone down in the law reports.
  Just as important, in my mind, was the fact that Davina was now safely married to a Yorkshire landowner. We declined the wedding invitation. Ed insisted that he had never been unfaithful to me with her, but I still felt awkward in her presence.
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conversations.value: Do you know the last paragraph?
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conversations.value: Now as Ross and I prepare to slice the wedding cake with all our friends and family around and Tom by my side, there is one indisputable fact.