Figs in frost

the long version

"Lucia's dilemma was as old as love itself. Guy, her husband, was a successful stockbroker, she had a beautiful home and two adorable children. But Lucia, when she married, had been too young and inexperienced to have known unerringly how to choose the man who would be right for her. As lover, companion, father to the children, Guy was a failure - cold and self-centred. However, she accepted that she would continue thus - not actively discontented perhaps, but aware that she ws not and never would be supremely happy. Then Charles came into her life"--Publisher description.