Lord Peter Wimsey lawyers, proving that I am me." In fact, he returns smoothly to his old life, and the interlude is never referred to in later books. During the 1920s, Wimsey has affairs with various women, which are the subject of much gossip in Britain and Europe. This part of his life remains hazy: it is hardly ever mentioned in the books set in the same period; most of the scanty information on the subject is given in flashbacks from later times, after he meets Harriet Vane and relations with other women become a closed chapter. In "Busman's Honeymoon" Wimsey facetiously refers
Marry Me (novel) is quite simply, Updike's best novel yet. I can't believe that anyone married or divorced could read it without being moved." Marry Me (novel) Marry Me: A Romance is a 1976 novel by American writer John Updike. As in Updike's 1968 "Couples", two married households—in this case, the Conants and the Mathiases—meet and entwine. Jerry Conant's love for Sally Mathias is the primary engine of the novel; his wife Ruth's reaction, and the reaction of Sally's husband Richard, are the story's bookends. The novel was well received by critics. In "The Atlantic", Richard Todd enthusiastically welcomed the book: "'Marry Me,'