- Harry Silver is a TV producer in London whose work life is going much better than his home life. His ex-wife still bears a grudge, his new wife is not to be trusted, and he is alienated from his son and stepdaughter. Thank goodness he has Mum, whose long marriage to his father is Harry"s impossible ideal. Of course, his own pursuit of a seductive Japanese woman doesn"t help matters....MAN AND WIFE is the sequel to the author"s best-selling MAN AND BOY (2001).