English novelist, playwright Piers Paul Reid (b. 1941), author of the novels “Game in Heaven with Tussy Marx” (1966), “The Junkers” (1968) , “Monk Dawson” (1970), “The Upstart” (1973), the story “Polonaise” (1976), the documentary stories “Alive!” ("Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors", 1974), "The Train Robbers", 1978), plays for television and radio. The novel “The Professor’s Daughter” (M., 1974) was translated into Russian. P. Paul Reid's novel "A Married Man" is published with slight abbreviations ("A Married Man". London, An Alison Press Book, Seeker & Warburg, 1979). In appearance, it follows the tradition of the “family chronicle.” The writer subtly emphasizes how fragile the apparent “prosperity” of Great Britain in the 70s actually was.