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In her dark and witty third novel, award-winning Man Booker longlisted author Louise Dean explores the perplexing marriages of two couples living in Provence.Richard is the head of sales in Africa for a pharmaceutical company. He spends most of his time away on business, sleeping with other women and pushing psychiatric drugs on a developing market. Back in Provence, he and his wife, Valérie, no longer share a bed, and his teenage son, Maxence, is hearing voices. When Richard begins an affair with a neighbour, Rachel, he discovers that Valérie, too, is having an affair - with Rachel's husband, Jeff. Suddenly, a routine trip to Africa to sell pharmaceuticals is more than he can handle and his life starts to implode as he realizes that the idea of a life full of that love he has cherished is a mere illusion.'With wry humour, Dean captures the gloom of existences imploding in incongruous surroundings.' The...Pages of The Idea of Love :