This post was originally published at Novelicious.com and is now at WritingTipsOasis.com. WritingTipsOasis.com acquired Novelicious.com in June 2022.
Husbands. Well, what can we say? Sometimes amazing men – thoughtful, loving, supportive. Then sometimes irritating with peculiar habits. Finding a husband is a great joy. You've found your mate for life. Then you find you have to live with him. For life.
But they're great on the whole. Honest. Here are our top ten books celebrating husbands.
1. The Foster Husband by Pippa Wright – Out on May 9th this is the story of Kate who left her seaside home at eighteen in search of fabulous career, house and husband. But now she's been forced to return. Gone is the job and the house plus she's now separated from her husband. In contrast she is now living in her deceased granny's bungalow – with her future, but rather hopeless, brother-in-law, Ben. Kate thinks it would be a great project for her and a great wedding gift for her sister if she secretly trained Ben. So he becomes her foster husband.
2. Husbands by Adele Parks – Bella and Stevie, childhood sweethearts at university, have secretly got married. So when the relationship unravels they have no-one to tell. When Bella meets Philip some years later she re-thinks on her vow never to marry again. Only problem is, she's still married to Stevie. Bella decides to stick her head in the sand and ignore it. Until her friend Laura introduces her new love to her. And its none other than Stevie.
3. The Perfect Husband by Lisa Gardner – Tess thinks she's found her perfect husband, Jim. Just two years later he's behind bars convicted for murdering ten women. And Tess helped put him there. Then he escapes…
4. Husband, Missing by Polly Williams – Gina has been married to Rex for six months, then he goes missing on a trip to Spain. What has happened to him? Has he drowned at sea? Lost his memory? Troubling stories begin to emerge about his past and Gina wonders how well she knew her husband at all.
5. The Accidental Husband by Jane Green – two women, two strangers living on opposite coasts of America, are connected as each of them discovers a secret that shatters their world.
6. My Husband Next Door by Catherine Alliott – When Ella married Sebastian she was young, not even twenty. They had a blissful marriage for a while. Now Sebastian lives in an outhouse across the lawn. When Sebastian decides it is time to move on, it catches Ella horribly unaware.
7. Good Husband Material by Tricia Ashley – Tish has married a perfect man. He's dependable, handsome and good father material. Plus he helped mend her heart after Fergal, her teenage sweetheart, broke it. A move to the country occurs and children are next on the cards. But James treats the pub as his scond home. Soon her thoughts start straying towards Fergal…
8. Hollywood Husbands by Jackie Collins - Jack Python, Howard Soloman, and Mannon Cable are competitive friends. Then strong, independent and dangerously beautiful model Jade Johnson enters their lives.
9. The Fishing Fleet: Husband Hunting in the Raj by Anne de Courcy – Many young men from the 19th century onwards went out to India to work, taking advantage of the Raj at its height. And with travelling opportunities opening up, many young women followed them with a declared or undeclared goal to find a husband. These women were known as the Fishing Fleet.
10. The Man Who Forgot His Wife by John O'Farrell – it is one thing forgetting your wedding anniversary but to forget your wife is another thing entirely. This is what has happened to Vaughan – he's forgotten what his wife looks like, their history, their conversations – it has all gone. When he does finally rediscover her, he finds they're getting divorced.