Publisher's Synopsis
The book simply revolves around the society's way of looking towards the presence of a female friend in a married man's life. A disturbance in marriage is not always due to the female friend, especially when the girl does not take the first step or tempt the boy to find happiness in a forbidden relationship. This book deals with the man's conscious desire of finding solace in the female friend perhaps his best female friend inspite of his love marriage.The story also arises the sensitive issue of emotional infidelity. A common definition of a ruined married life is sexual adultery. But this is an absolutely wrong concept. Because the cowardly hypocritic practice of fantasizing other woman while making love with wife is also a sign of a broken marriage.So, in such a situation blaming the female friend only is morally incorrect. A man of frivolous nature will of course get married and will also not break away from it. But he will continue to go the extra mile for the explicable joy of his life which he is missing in his marriage.The mistake of one night is not a matter of serious issue for the author. That's only because one night stand still can be explicable with appropriate logic. One night stand is something which happens suddenly in an unplanned way. And in front of strong bond like love and a marriage it is trivial, fleeting and momentary. Normally in the mistake of one night the girl is a fugitive in fact anonymous. But here in the story the male protagonist makes passionate love with a very close and a well known female friend from last twelve years.'Some 14 Odd Years' is all about developing the conviction in girls and discarding the things that hold them back from keeping contact with married male friends. Those days are gone when a girl had to cut off all ties with a male friend due to his marital status. It is also not the girl's prime duty to look after the conjugal happiness of the legal wife due to her weaker gender. The discontentment in any wife's life is due to her husband who has no control on his sexual feelings and not due to the husband's female friend.
