More

<p><b>The instant<i> New York Times</i> bestselling memoir that <i>everyone </i>is talking about<br><br><i>'This book about open marriage is going to blow up your group chat' The Washington Post</i></b><br><br>Molly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband Stewart who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids’ bedtime—again—she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At a bar she met Matt a flirtatious younger man. When Molly told her husband that Matt had asked her out she was surprised that Stewart encouraged her to accept.<br><br>So began Molly’s unexpected open marriage and with it a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Molly signs up for dating sites enters into passionate flings and has sex in hotels and public places around New York City. For Molly it’s a mystery why she wants what she wants. In therapy sessions fuelled by the discovery that her parents had an open marriage too she grapples with her past and what it means to be a mother and a whole person.<br><br>Molly and Stewart who also begins to see other people set ground rules: Don’t date an ex. Don’t date someone in the neighbourhood. Don’t go to anyone’s home. And above all don’t fall in love. In the years that follow they break most of their rules even the most important one. They grapple with jealousy insecurity and doubts all the while wondering: Can they love others and stay true to their love for each other? Can they make the impossible work?<br><br>More is an electric debut that offers both steamy fun and poignant reflections on motherhood daughterhood marriage and self-fulfilment. With warmth humour and style Molly Roden Winter delivers an unputdownable journey of a woman becoming her most authentic self.</p> This book about open marriage is going to blow up your group chat Breathtakingly candid Rather than rejecting monogamy outright this thoughtful foray into free love asks if polyamory can enrich a couple’s relationship...Roden Winter makes a strong case for open marriage as a crucible in which love of self partner and others can be deepened. A luscious and surprising tale of one woman finding her way back to herself. An honest and astonishing memoir of what it means to authentically desire An intimate glimpse into an open marriage with all its glorious imperfections. What a gift to witness Molly and her husband fumble through this relationship evolution and offer us a front row seat to their growth as a couple and her breakthroughs as an individual. For anyone who's ever been curious about open marriage this engrossing achingly honest memoir is a must-read. MOLLY RODEN WINTER was raised in Evanston Illinois and lives in Park Slope Brooklyn with her husband and two sons. Her personal essays have appeared in <i>The Cut Time Magazine</i> <i>Romper</i> and elsewhere. She is half of the guitar-playing song-writing duo House of Mirth. Her website is www.mollyrodenwinter.com.