Your Changing Face
Al is in his early sixties, retired from business, happily married. He meets a much younger woman, Courtney, whom he befriends. His immediate difficulty is to define the friendship: His wife, Kimberly, regards the friendship with Courtney as inimical to their marriage. Kimberly insists that Al chooses between her and Courtney. He must confront the issue of what constitutes love; and whether and how much he loves the two women, and in what different ways. Al ends his friendship with Courtney but feels badly about it – he thinks that he has behaved poorly, and that he has let her down. Kimberly is deeply angry, but he slowly recovers her trust, and they resume their erstwhile happy marriage.
Rupert Smith is an author and retired attorney in Johannesburg. He started school in Afrikaans, then swapped to English. He qualified as a lawyer at Wits University in Johannesburg, including six languages in his undergraduate curriculum. He spent 30 years in city law firms as a commercial lawyer. Your Changing Face is his debut novel.