Time for a change of subject

I have just finished reading "The Sea" by John Banville which followed "Deaf Sentence" by David Lodge. Two excellent books that I enjoyed very much but both featured men who had lost their wives to illness as the central characters. I am not superstitious but I don't like taking chances so I am now reading "Principles and Practices of Marketing" by David Jobber to make sure I don't get a hat trick.