If Marion had an affair, especially with a teenager, it would strengthen the case for custody to be awarded to him. Ted has always conducted extramarital affairs and would likely lose in a custody battle for Ruth. Marion, unable to forget her dead sons, shows little affection to her daughter. Eddie is unwittingly drawn into a plot orchestrated by Ted to drive his unhappy wife, Marion, to infidelity. He hires Eddie O'Hare, a teenager who attends Phillips Exeter Academy, the same school Ruth's two late brothers attended, to work as his assistant for the summer. Ruth's father, Ted Cole, is a successful writer and illustrator of books for children. Her two older brothers died several years earlier in a tragic accident, and she is constantly reminded of their presence by the pictures of the boys' childhood hanging on the walls of the Cole family home. Although she is a loved child, her parents do not have a happy marriage. The year is 1958 and Ruth Cole is 4 years old. The first third of the novel was adapted into the film The Door in the Floor in 2004. A Widow for One Year is a 1998 novel by American writer John Irving, the ninth of his novels to be published.
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