The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous is a 1993 novel written by Jilly Cooper as part of the Rutshire Chronicles, is about Lysander Hawkley, a man who is employed by wives to make their adulterous husbands jealous, and reinvest in their marriages.The book was first published in hardback in 1993 and then in paperback in April 1994, and was later adapted into a television miniseries. Upon publication of the novel Quentin Oates writing in the The Bookseller commented that with this novel Cooper had "joined the great, the good and the reviewable", although many reviews did not appreciate the humour or the sex scenes. However Maeve Binchy described the novel as "a happy feckless romp".