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Wife

Wife

1st paperback ed

Paperback (01 May 2025)

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Publisher's Synopsis

'Crackles with female fire and fury' - The Guardian
'A bravura portrait of a marriage in meltdown' - The Observer

'Fast and furious' - The Sunday Times

Discover the bitingly witty new novel from the prize-winning author of The Exhibitionist, Charlotte Mendelson.

Dr Penny Cartwright is everything that Zoe Stamper is not: glamorous, sophisticated and openly gay. When they begin a passionate affair, a lifetime of wedded bliss seems within Zoe's grasp. But this is not a love story. It's the story of how love can bring about disaster . . .

'A terrific panic attack of a novel' - i newspaper
'Lacerating' - Financial Times
'Unbearably brilliant' - Nigella Lawson
'A gift to the reader . . . Irresistible' - Amy Bloom, bestselling author of In Love
'Compelling' - Glamour
'Truly radical' - The Spectator

About the Publisher

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9781529052831
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: 1st paperback ed
DEWEY: 823.92
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 384
Weight: -1g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm