Before The Swallow Dares: Can beauty, love and tenderness last into old age?
by Tony Whelpton
What do you think your feelings would be if you met an old school friend forty years later – and discovered that he’s married to the girl you considered to be the love of your life when you were 18? And especially when you met her again and found her just as captivating as she used to be!
So here you are with three women in your life: for, apart from your current wife, to whom you’ve been happily married for over 20 years, there is still your first wife, a vivacious and scheming Frenchwoman whose main objective in life appears to be to cause as much mayhem as possible!
Love, friendship, lust, jealousy, guilt: the ingredients for an intriguing and potentially dangerous mix when the players in the drama are in the first flush of youth. But is it likely to be any different when they’re older?
