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The Ten Year Affair
Erin Somers
★★★★· Published 2025· 304 pages· read 2025
A sliding-doors novel about two happily-married-just-not-to-each-other parents and the affair that plays out in one timeline and stays imagined in the other. Witheringly sharp about millennial marriage.
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