More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

Narrated by: Molly Roden Winter

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother as she explores sex and relationships outside her marriage

"This book about open marriage is going to blow up your group chat"—The Washington Post

"Breathtakingly candid"—Alexandra Alter, The New York Times

Molly Roden Winter was a mother of small children with a husband, Stewart, who often worked late. One night when Stewart missed the kids’ bedtime—again—she stormed out of the house to clear her head. At a bar, she met Matt, a flirtatious younger man. When Molly told her husband that Matt had asked her out, she was surprised that Stewart encouraged her to accept.

So began Molly’s unexpected open marriage and, with it, a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Molly signs up for dating sites, enters into passionate flings, and has sex in hotels and public places around New York City. For Molly it’s a mystery why she wants what she wants. In therapy sessions, fueled by the discovery that her parents had an open marriage, too, she grapples with her past and what it means to be a mother and a whole person.

Molly and Stewart, who also begins to see other people, set ground rules: Don’t date an ex. Don’t date someone in the neighborhood. Don’t go to anyone’s home. And above all, don’t fall in love. In the years that follow, they break most of their rules, even the most important one. They grapple with jealousy, insecurity, and doubts, all the while wondering: Can they love others and stay true to their love for each other? Can they make the impossible work?

More is an electric debut that offers both steamy fun and poignant reflections on motherhood, daughterhood, marriage, and self-fulfillment. With warmth, humor, and style, Molly Roden Winter delivers an unputdownable journey of a woman becoming her most authentic self.

Talk about finding yourself!

Husband pushed her into it. What do your children think of this? It must be humiliating - but it was interesting and well-written for me as a voyeur.

Many Honest Insights About Love

I thoroughly enjoyed this insightful, blisteringly honest reflection on life and love. I have learned similar lessons about the expansiveness of the human heart and think, as a general principle, that the love we bring into the world is our primary source of real hope.

Listened in a day!

This was such a quick, well-paced, engaging memoir! This is exactly the kind of book that will get you out of a reading slump, and just the jolt you need in the new year. More memoirs need to be like this one. This is a story that moves and includes all the most important details without going overboard or feeling long/drawn out.

Great insight

Fantastic psychological insight in to the adventures of living this sort of life style. So many emotional ups and downs. Thank you for sharing so much. I couldn't stop listening. Seems like it's an always fleeting situation that inevitably ends. Makes me believe that we are more monogamous beings that sometimes just need a way to reduce the stress of life. I hope there is a follow up book in ten years.

Refreshing, candid, unabashed

Molly and Stew take risks and are rewarded with an enriched life. I found myself excited and laughing with her. The process of being open and vulnerable in getting to know and love others is authentic, real.