The Person of the Man takes the reader into the outwardly successful but severely flawed marriage of Alice, a lawyer and Martin, an ambitious Oxford academic. At the heart of their relationship is the ‘person of the man’ –- a selfish weighing of the advantages each person brings to the marriage. Martin’s betrayal and the tragedy that follows leads Alice to realise that the person of the man is often hidden and that love cannot be analysed it can only be understood.