A BETTER MAN
Book ID/图书代码： 03540014B68523
English Summary/英文概要： Every couple has a wish list.
Maya wants...
Nick to come home earlier.
To engage with his children.
To engage with her.
Nick wants...
A divorce.
Having made his decision, Nick is determined to leave quickly and with dignity, because surely that would be best? So what an unpleasant shock it is to discover how much the divorce proceedings will cost him. As a stay-at-home mum, Maya will get everything. Nick, however, is resolute and willing to try anything... so when the unlikely solution of giving Maya exactly what she wants is presented to him, he takes it. The better a father and husband Nick is, the cheaper his eventual divorce pay-out will be.
But as Nick sets out to be a better man he begins to feel worryingly like one. Time with his kids, dinners with his wife and less hours in the office have the strange effect of making him happy.
Nick and Maya feel like they are falling back in love. How odd, how funny, how serendipitous! But what would Maya do if she knew what had promoted this marital metamorphosis? Why then it would be war...
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 每对夫妇都有一个愿望清单。
玛雅想要...
尼克早点回家。
陪伴孩子们。
陪伴她。
尼克想...
离婚。
在作出他的决定后，尼克决心迅速而有尊严地离开，因为这肯定会是最好的。但是他发现了震惊的不愉快的事实，离婚诉讼会花费他很多钱。作为全职主妇，玛雅会得到一切。但是尼克的态度非常坚决，他愿意尝试任何事情...所以当玛雅将包含她要求的不太可能的方案呈现在他面前时，他接受了。如果尼克能成为一个更好的丈夫和父亲，他的离婚会便宜很多。
但是当尼克正准备做一个更好的男人时，他开始感到担忧。比如这个，他与孩子和妻子在一起相处，吃晚餐的时间越多，在办公室待的时间越短，这有让他开心的奇效。
尼克和玛雅觉得他们好像重新坠入了爱河。多么奇怪，多么可笑，多么偶然！但是如果玛雅知道了是什么推动了这一婚姻的蜕变，她会怎么做？为什么接下来是战争……
(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况："Inside every couple’s marriage is a secret known only to them. One of the many pleasures of Leah McLaren’s novel is the way she opens a window onto that secret, with great heart and wit. Wince in recognition then laugh out loud, just like life." - Elizabeth Renzetti, author of BASED ON A TRUE STORY. "In this engrossing new novel, Leah McLaren deftly balances humour and pathos to weave a touching, entertaining portrait of a marriage in crisis. A great read!" - Terry Fallis, bestselling author of NO RELATION. "A brilliant fresh take on the collapse of a modern marriage. Well-observed, beautifully written but mostly screechingly funny. I laughed, I gasped. Give it to all your friends." - Camilla Long. "McLaren’s deft prose crackles... A Better Man is unexpectedly beautiful" - Globe and Mail
About the Author/作者介绍： 莉亚•迈凯轮是环球邮报专栏作家和麦克林杂志的欧洲记者。在2013年，因为她为多伦多生活杂志所做贡献，获得了一枚国家杂志艺术类奖。
她的第一本小说《连续性女孩》由加拿大哈珀柯林斯出版社和美国阿歇特出版社出版，它是一本国家畅销书，连续9周占据环球邮报畅销书排行榜。
莉亚出生在安大略省的乡村，在一个小城镇长大，现在将时间分给多伦多和英国伦敦，在伦敦她与丈夫和儿子有一个家。
Leah McLaren is a Globe and Mail columnist and Europe correspondent for Maclean’s. In 2013, she won a gold National Magazine Award in the arts feature category for her work in Toronto Life magazine.
Her first novel, The Continuity Girl, published by HarperCollins Canada and Hachette US, was a national bestseller, spending nine weeks on the Globe and Mail bestseller list.
Leah was born in rural Ontario, grew up in a small town and now splits her time between Toronto and London, England, where she shares a home with her husband and son.
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