Mr Wilson's Woman (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

On holiday, Billy Wilson accidentally enters the wrong hotel room. What meets his eyes takes his breath away. This incident and the events that follow in the next few days change Billy's life forever.Billy Wilson is a widower, still missing and loving his late wife Dolly. On holiday with his son and daughter-in-law on the French Riviera, Billy has mixed feelings as he experiences being outside England for the very first time. From time to time, he regrets that he was not born at a later date, able to enjoy the new freedoms. At other times, he finds the standards of the modern world too lax. Mostly, Billy is confused and cannot make up his mind. When he meets Jean Nicholls, he finds himself re-evaluating the beliefs and habits of a lifetime.Billy relives his life with Dolly and gets to know Jean in alternating chapters, until the conclusion when Billy has made up his mind about his future life. Billy has discovered that some choices we make are between attractive alternatives are mutually exclusive, probably leaving a lingering regret whichever way we choose.Billy’s decisions about the way he will spend the rest of his life are revealed in the last chapter. The reader is left perhaps to wonder, ‘What would I have done?’