Evidence of the Affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Amazon.in “Dear Mr. David Mayer, My name is Carrie Allsop. Please accept my apologies for contacting you out of the blue. I am writing to ask a quite humbling favour.” This epistolary short story starts with the above lines, and the correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer continues throughout, underlining the fact that their two spouses, who met at a medical conference in Coronado three months earlier, had embarked on an affair. Carrie had letters from David’s wife to her own husband to testify to the fact. David, in turn, responds to Carrie’s letters and the two begin to confide in each other, trying to hold on to false hope. As David puts it in his first letter, “How do you hold it inside and not let it show on your face?” Little facets of the personalities of the characters come out in the letters. For example, Ken, the cheating husband, is methodical and logical and conscientious. In o