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Molly has fallen in love/sex with Matt, who in turn feels guilty for betraying his girlfriend. But Molly needn't feel guilty because she's only doing what Stewart agreed to. Meanwhile, he is out with another woman . . . If it sounds like a complicated mess, that's because it is. I've been there - the moment when you say goodbye to the husband you love and drive off to the ­lover's bedsit. All very 1970. And Molly's account reads like a ­Cosmopolitan magazine confessional of that time. Yet this book is a saga of 21st-century New York. The consensual infidelity Molly and Stewart have chosen is, she explains, 'a double life'.