Happenstance Carol Shields by Carol Shields 9781480459588, 1480459585 instant download after payment.

Happenstance is a unique novel, its events taking place in one week, telling two stories. Both recount the same events, from a wife's perspective and from her husband's. Both stories are written in a third-person stream-of-consciousness style, but they differ in style to highlight the difference between the male and female voices. 

"A perfect little gem of a novel."  -  Toronto Star

These two unique novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare weekend apart in their many years of marriage. Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and two uncouth adolescents, while immobilized by self-doubt and questioning his worth as a historian. Brenda, travelling alone for the first time, is in a strange city grappling with an array of emotions and toying with the idea of an affair. 

"A delightful portrait of a partnership, full of quirky humour between two people who are at once familiar and strangers to each other... A celebration of marriage."   -  The Times London

Intimate and insightful yet never sentimental, Happenstance is a profound portrait of a marriage and the differences between the sexes that bring life — and a sense of isolation — into even the most loving of relationships.