The Safe Bet

by Elliott Fassbinder

Fiona Alderton is fast approaching her fortieth birthday. Her life is chugging along a track she carefully laid twenty years ago. Successful husband, beautiful Highgate home, vast walk-in-wardrobe, and two delightful sons. But the sky is not all brilliant azure, there are clouds: a diminishing sex life, a teaching job she loathes, and an increasing dependence on alcohol. Still, her decision, twenty years earlier, to cut adrift a life of libertine excess to hitch herself to sensitive, geeky David Alderton, her Safe Bet, looks like the right one.

Until, two days before her birthday, Fiona and David are rushing around preparing for the school run, and their mobiles get muddled. Fiona sees a text meant for her husband, and her Safe Bet suddenly resembles a ruinous roll of the dice. How will she react?

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5 out of 5 stars

“This is Elliott’s second book and it’s a real page turner! Enjoy, and I hope he has plans for another soon.” – Amazon reviewer

5 out of 5 stars

“Well-written, witty, narrative that will stay with you long after you have turned the last page!

Elliott Fassbinder’s depth of observation, compassion and character development added immensely to a refreshing way to tell the story of marriage, regret, apathy, and the struggle of the human condition, which all make this a very well-written, poetically witty, relatable narrative that will stay with you long after you have turned the last page.

Is there really such a thing as a Safe Bet?” – Amazon reviewer