The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction

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Although there was in my life a man to whom I bore roughly the same relationship that Sophy bears to Will, and although I have aimed for an autobiographical tone, this is a work of fiction. Swansea Island exists only in my imagination and is populated by characters of my own invention. The details of Will's professional, personal, and family life are fiction and should in no way be read as posthumous truths.

The names of well-known individuals and those unnamed in their orbits are used fictitiously throughout, and any overlapping situations are purely coincidental.

I am indebted to the many friends and colleagues who made available the quiet houses where most of this book was written.

I HAVE this boyfriend who comes to visit me-it's mostly a sex thing. Unless I visit him, in which case it's mostly a babysitting thing. I'm not sure which turns me on more. You don't think of British Jews, if you happen to know any-and I didn't until Daniel Jacobs-as world-class lovers, but he must be an exception, or it could be the antidepressants he takes, which not only keep the blues at bay, but orgasms too. In Daniel's case, for, oh, forty-five minutes, give or take a few. My friend Henderson calls him the Bionic Man.

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