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Issue Details: First known date: 1995... 1995 Adultery
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'Pragmatic and world-weary, Ailsa Trewen has confronted several mistresses over the course of her marriage to the philandering Sid. But her plans for an animal sanctuary and a quiet future take an unexpected turn when Sid's death in the arms of his latest lover leaves her a wealthy widow and she invests in a thriving hotel. Not just any hotel, but Hotel D'Amour, a luxorious retreat for the businessman and the 'other woman'....Over gourmet dinners at her 'mistresses only' nights, her clients shed their inhibitions and share their experiences, telling tales of lust, envy and revenge as they explore the agonies, ecstasies (and ironies) of Adultery.' Back cover.

Notes

  • Dedication: To Cherie and Sizou
  • Epigraph: 'For much of the year they live like respectable worms, scavenging food on the sea floor; then suddenly their sexual hunger causes them to light up at night and head for the sky.' On fireworms, from The Sexual Connection : Mating the Wild Way, by John Sparks.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1995 .
      Extent: 157p.
      ISBN: 0140236651

Works about this Work

Stories of Women Set Out to Liberate Joan Slagle , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 10 no. 2 1996; (p. 150)

— Review of A Change in the Lighting Amy Witting , 1994 single work novel ; Adultery Maurilia Meehan , 1995 single work novel
Modern Liaisons and Ancestral Curses Maureen Bettle , C. A. Woolard , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , June vol. 7 no. 2 1995; (p. 36-37)

— Review of Adultery Maurilia Meehan , 1995 single work novel ; The Childstone Cycle Kerry Greenwood , 1994 single work novel
Develish and Delectable Tales of Revenge Katharine England , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 4 March 1995; (p. 12)

— Review of Adultery Maurilia Meehan , 1995 single work novel
Untitled Peter Loiterton , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Redoubt , no. 20 1995; (p. 129-130)

— Review of Adultery Maurilia Meehan , 1995 single work novel
Mistress of the Tale Elaine Lindsay , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , February-March no. 168 1995; (p. 39-40)

— Review of Adultery Maurilia Meehan , 1995 single work novel
Modern Liaisons and Ancestral Curses Maureen Bettle , C. A. Woolard , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , June vol. 7 no. 2 1995; (p. 36-37)

— Review of Adultery Maurilia Meehan , 1995 single work novel ; The Childstone Cycle Kerry Greenwood , 1994 single work novel
Days of Sea and Sleaze John Hanrahan , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 29 April 1995; (p. 8)

— Review of This is My Friend's Chair Geraldine Halls , 1995 single work novel ; Adultery Maurilia Meehan , 1995 single work novel ; Spilt Milk Kathleen Stewart , 1995 single work novel
A Sweetly Malicious Story of Adultery Helen Elliott , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 26 March 1995; (p. 9)

— Review of Death of a River Guide Richard Flanagan , 1994 single work novel ; Adultery Maurilia Meehan , 1995 single work novel
Stories of Women Set Out to Liberate Joan Slagle , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 10 no. 2 1996; (p. 150)

— Review of A Change in the Lighting Amy Witting , 1994 single work novel ; Adultery Maurilia Meehan , 1995 single work novel
Untitled Cherrill Vertigan , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: New Librarian , December vol. 1 no. 10 1994; (p. 38)

— Review of Adultery Maurilia Meehan , 1995 single work novel
How to Survive Love and the Eternal Triangle Nadine Williams , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 May 1995; (p. 3)
An Antidote to Bring Down an 'Addicted' Mistress Helen Elliott , 1995 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7 January 1995; (p. 9A)
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