Thursday, 14 August 2025

At the Table 2 (Pages 34 - 135)

 

SPOILERS!!!

We discover that the reason why Linda and Gerry are separating is because he had an affair. Linda first suspected it when an acquaintance of his told him that he had heard that he and someone called Vivienne had rented a cottage. Then when he had his heart attack, he confessed that he had been a bad husband and had had an affair, but it was over. Linda tried to forget it, and they even went to counselling, but in the end, she couldn't overlook his betrayal.

As Linda decided that Nicole and Jamie shouldn't learn the truth, Nicole is not very affectionate to her, and it seems that she blames her mother. The times they have met they have ended up arguing. Now Nicole has contacted her ex-boyfriend, Oliver. He was the only man she brought to meet her parents, and everybody loved Oliver. Yet, after a while she got bored and started wondering what she was missing out on by being with him. Then she discovered he was pregnant and shortly afterwards, she had a miscarriage. After that, she broke up with Oliver. Years later Nicole has discovered that what she longed to discover is not worth it after all. So she and Oliver start emailing each other, and she gets bold enough to ask her to meet.

As for Jamie, he seems to be getting cold feet about his upcoming marriage. He loves Lucy, but he feels that they are not so in synch as they should. And now he starts feeling attracted to a colleague in his school, Priya.

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