Wife
08 August 2024
Imprint: Mantle
Synopsis
Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is heartbreaking and funny, profound and gripping, as it takes the reader from the end of a relationship to its beginning, and back again.
'Charlotte Mendelson at her soul-searing best . . . unbearably brilliant' – Nigella Lawson, TV cook and bestselling author of Eat, Cook, Repeat
When Zoe moves in with Penny, their relationship looks perfect; after...
Details
08 August 2024
627 minutes
Kristin Atherton
9781529052855
Imprint: Mantle
Reviews
Poleaxed after finishing this. Charlotte Mendelson at her soul-searing best. Narcissistic monsters and suffocating families are quite the specialty of hers, but Wife is just unbearably brilliantNigella Lawson, TV cook and bestselling author of Eat, Cook, Repeat
'This is a love story,' Zoe tells the reader, and it is, profoundly so, in the end. But I'll remember it more as a thriller, for the way Mendelson manages to make what looks from the outside like a sad but unremarkable day – packing, Tube journeys – feel like sweaty offcuts from The Bourne Identity . . . God, you want Zoe to get away. Does she? Better read the bookThe Sunday Times
A family saga of great insight, with another magnificently grotesque villain at its heartThe Observer
A clever, lacerating account of coercive control . . . a finely executed novelFinancial Times