The Ex-Wives by Deborah Moggach is one of the author’s many contemporary novels. However, she is most well known for an historical novel called Tulip Fever, set in 17th century Amsterdam.
The Ex-Wives opens with the central character of Buffy (Russell Buffery), an actor, feeling old and sorry for himself.
He has ex-wives, as well as other partners he hasn’t married, children and step-children and now has to quite literally pay for his past “mistakes”.
As someone who has started to feel the aches and pains of getting old myself, I found the explanations of some of his “problems” comically entertaining.
