The Senator's Wife
A Richard & Judy pick, from the bestselling author of Monogamy
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- 8,49 €
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- 8,49 €
Publisher Description
'Tasteful, elegant, sensuous' Boston Globe
'Incredible ... Perfect book-club material' Easy Living
'Addictive' Eve
'Complex, rich, haunting' Woman & Home
Maybe some people just like to keep things private. Secret, I guess you'd say.
Love came late to Meri, but in a rush: she met Nathan at thirty-six, he moved in a month later, and they married a month after that. Now they are moving to New England and a house of their own - a new life that Meri is not sure she even wants. She loves her husband, but feels there may be trouble ahead.
Nathan, however, is boyishly excited that their next-door neighbour is the eminent Senator Tom Naughton, a political hero of his, now in his seventies. The Senator is nowhere to be seen, but Meri strikes up an unexpected friendship with his wife, the elegant Delia, sensing that she has much to learn from her - about marriage, love and motherhood.
But soon she comes close to a terrible breach of trust that could ruin everything. Even the most public marriages have their secrets...
What readers say about The Senator's Wife:
'I love this book ... captivating'
'Subtle, rich and oh so close to home'
'I couldn't put this book down'
'Very gracious, warm and funny'
'Excellent and perceptive storytelling of the highest order'
'These characters are alive, they are real'
'This is an exquisite book, with many twists and turns and moments of pure beauty and poignancy.'
'This book is still haunting me, several weeks later ... I didn't want it to end'
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestselling author Miller (The Good Mother; When I Was Gone) returns with a rich, emotionally urgent novel of two women at opposite stages of life who face parallel dilemmas. Meri, the young, sexy wife of a charismatic professor, occupies one wing of a New England house with her husband. An unexpected pregnancy forces her to reassess her marriage and her childhood of neglect. Delia, her elegant neighbor in the opposite wing, is the long-suffering wife of a notoriously philandering retired senator. The couple have stayed together for his career and still share an occasional, deeply intense tryst. The women's routines continue on either side of the wall that divides their homes, and the two begin to flit back and forth across the porch and into each others physical and psychological spaces. A steady tension builds to a bruising denouement. The clash, predicated on Delia's husband's compulsive behavior and on Meri's lack of boundaries, feels too preordained. But Miller's incisive portrait of the complex inner lives of her characters and her sharp manner of taking them through conflicts make for an intense read.
