The Ten Year Affair
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The Ten Year Affair
The Ten Year Affair
The Ten Year Affair is a witty, emotionally-charged exploration of marriage, family life and the roads not taken, that ultimately asks: do we really want our fantasies to come true?
Somers's wit is as cool, caustic, and dry as liquid nitrogen TONY TULATHIMUTTE
Hilarious BRANDON TAYLOR
Compulsively readable JULIA MAY JONAS
Two parents. Happily married. Just not to each other.
When Cora meets Sam at a baby group in their small town, the chemistry between them is instant and undeniable. But both are happily married, and neither is the type to cheat. So as their lives intertwine and the romantic tension between them heightens, Cora turns to her imagination: in her head, she and Sam pursue their feelings; in reality, they resist.
Yet as the fantasy affair grows ever more intoxicating, it can't help but cast Cora's everyday life - the mushroom problem in the bathroom, her daughter's new fascination with the afterlife, her husband's obsession with podcasts about the history of rope - in a new light. And when the boundaries grow increasingly blurred, she must decide what truly matters.
Razor-sharp, exhilaratingly honest, and salted with an irresistible acerbic wit, The Ten Year Affair explores family life, fidelity, and the roads not taken, ultimately asking: do we really want our fantasies to come true?
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781837266050
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 January 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Country Special - ANZ Exclusive
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 135.0mm
Height: 214.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 304
About the Author
Erin Somers is a reporter and news editor at Publishers Lunch. Her first novel, Stay Up with Hugo Best was a Vogue Best Book of the Year in 2019. Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, New York Times Book Review, New Republic, New York Magazine, Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, Best American Short Stories and many other publications. She has been the recipient of an Emerging Writer Fellowship from the NYC Centre for Fiction, a fellowship from the Millay Colony, and was a 2020 finalist for a National Magazine Award. She lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her family.
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