"Kate Bright loves her husband, Vic, and their two children. She's also enjoying the latest installment of a long-standing assignation she has with her married lover, James. When the news begins to buzz, the very hotel in which they are ensconced in Room 706 has been taken over by gunmen. And that's the setup for Ellie Levenson's new novel "Room 706." She's a journalist who's written for The Guardian and Cosmopolitan UK and joins us from the studios for the BBC in London."
"LEVENSON: Well, in the book, it's termed a kind of me time. Kate justifies her affair by thinking it could be a secret drink after work by herself or a facial or maybe a kind of habit - buying shoes or something like that. It's purely an escape from her everyday life. SIMON: And does this crisis, this sudden crisis, cause her to review her life and who and what's truly important in it?"
Kate Bright loves her husband Vic and their two children, yet she maintains a long-term affair with a married man, James. She meets him in Room 706 for what she calls 'me time'—a secret drink, a facial, or a small indulgence like buying shoes—an escape from her everyday life. During their assignation the hotel is seized by gunmen, trapping Kate in the room. With uncertain survival and ample time, she slowly rereads her life, weighing loyalty, desire, and the complexities of being a woman and mother. Kate emerges as a morally ambivalent, fully human character.
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