Wife

''It takes the most ferocious intelligence, skill and a deep reservoir of sadness to write a novel as funny as this. I adored it '' - Meg Mason, bestselling author of Sorrow and Bliss , on The Exhibitionist ''[A] devastating treat of a novel: funny, furious, dark and delicious'' - Sarah Waters, bestselling author of Fingersmith , on The Exhibitionist Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is a beautifully observed and coruscating novel about the joys of passionate love and motherhood, about those left in its wake when passion curdles, and the choices that have to be made when romantic love is no longer enough. When Zoe Stamper meets fellow academic Dr Penny Cartwright at a party, she seems impossibly glamorous to Zoe, who is, after all, several rungs down the academic pecking order - and a nervous ingenue as far as Penny''s sophisticated circle is concerned. But Penny leaves Zoe a cryptic note, and a passionate affair ensues . . . Once Penny confesses all to her live-in lover, Justine, their path is cleared to a life of mutual contentment and marital bliss. But there is something else Penny needs as badly in her life as Zoe''s adoration, and thus the beginnng of their affair might also have signalled its end. ''A master at family drama'' - The Times

Auteur
Charlotte Mendelson's novels include Daughters of Jerusalem, When We Were Bad, Almost English, The Exhibitionist and Wife. She has won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of one work of non-fiction, Rhapsody in Green, and is the gardening correspondent for The New Yorker. She lives in London.

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A beautifully observed novel by literary star Charlotte Mendelson about the joys of passionate love and those left in its wake, told with Charlotte's signature wit and wisdom.