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Wife

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08 August 2024
368 pages
9781529052824
Imprint: Mantle

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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 brilliant
'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 book
A family saga of great insight, with another magnificently grotesque villain at its heart
A clever, lacerating account of coercive control . . . a finely executed novel