Author(s): Alison Lurie

Fiction.

Alan Mackenzie's bad back is running both his and his wife Jane's lives. After years of happy marriage, thes two attractive and intelligent people have stopped making love and are starting to resent each other. however, the arrival of a new couple in town - the beautiful and egotistical write Delia and her cynical husband Henry - heralds a period of dramatic change for the Mackenzies.

Truth and Consequences is a comedy about love and its disguises, and identity and change - about the small disasters and sudden attractions that can turn even teh most stable relationship upside down. First published 2005.