If Alice is the romantic authoress, and Miranda is the literary agent, then Tom must be the husband. But if Tom is who he thinks he is - then who on earth is Steve?
While Alice writes words of love, Tom thinks thoughts of money. Is his job worth £20,000? Is it worth a scintillating blow to the jaw? And why should he work anyway, if he can be a company director instead?
There are some things a successful novelist can't afford to lose, and Alice has lost them. She'd better find them before Tom finds out she's lost them. Meanwhile, Miranda finds she's found a lover.
Mummy's Brave Little Soldier Alice seeks inspiration in the unlikeliest of places, while Tom looks back on a long-lost love - and then forward to a nasty experience at the clinic.
A birthday - and a business trip to the depths of darkest Wales - all in one week. A bit too much for Tom, in Tom's opinion. Fortunately he can rely on Alice to understand - and then make things even worse.
Old friends never die, they only turn up on the doorstep with a suitcase. Old jealousies never die either. What is it about a great hairy slob like George that makes a woman like Alice go soft in the head?
In the last of the present series Alice wants to go to America. Tom wants to go to America. But Tom can't go with Alice, and Alice won't go without Tom. It's enough to make Miranda scream. It's enough to drive Tom to drink.
What intimate problem affects middle-aged married men from time to time? Yes - a sudden inability to hit a golf ball Wife Alice and agent Miranda would like to help Tom ... but they've got hold of the wrong end of the golf club.
As the husband of successful authoress Alice, Tom has everything - including a darts match in the hallway, a collapsible loo in the sitting room, and a literary agent who would like to murder him. And yet he's still complaining.
Infidelity happens to other people, not to solid married people like Tom and Alice. And if one of them indulged in a harmless flirtation, the other would take it in his stride... wouldn't he?
In which Alice nearly gets a prize, Tom gets a big surprise, Gerald gets a flea in his ear, Miranda gets her come-uppance, and someone gets a plate of sherry trifle.
The heart-warming truth about a long and successful marriage is - when one partner does something, the other will immediately misunderstand it. But if your wife found herself a solicitor, and didn't say why, what would you think?
Somewhere in the shadows, a loathsome and flaccid white object bestirs itself. Yes, it is Don the landlord, and he's thinking of leaving. Hurrah! cries Tom ... until he realises that Alice is thinking of leaving too.