Happy Wife: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel (Unabridged)
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3.9 • 99 Ratings
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • A young woman must find her missing husband and prove her innocence in this twisty, unputdownable novel set in an ultrawealthy Florida community where looks can kill.
“Happy Wife is one of those delicious, fun summer books that you’ll open on the beach and never put down.”—Jenna Bush Hager, Read With Jenna
Nora Davies doesn’t exactly fit in to Winter Park, Florida, where old-guard Floridians mix with the tax-fleeing coastal elite. Twenty-eight and barely making ends meet working at a country club, Nora feels like she’s going nowhere fast. Enter Will Somerset: a prominent forty-six-year-old lawyer, father to a teenage daughter, and recently divorced. The two set Winter Park’s social scene agog when they fall in love and marry after a whirlwind Cinderella-style courtship.
But Winter Park is fully upended when Will disappears the morning after a birthday bash Nora throws for him. Going back and forth between Nora and Will’s romance and the search in the wake of Will’s mysterious disappearance, Nora must answer the question from all angles: Where. Is. Will?
Combining breathless suspense, glittering and juicy social dynamics, and an unforgettable cast of characters, Happy Wife is a clever and subversive novel that explores marriage, wealth, and the secrets that lurk behind closed doors.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A woman finds herself out of her depth when her well-connected husband suddenly vanishes. Nora, the middle-class, much younger second wife of Will, an attractive and wealthy Florida lawyer, hopes that the glitzy gala she’s throwing for his 46th birthday will eventually lead to a warmer relationship with his friends and associates. But the morning after the party, Nora wakes up alone. Where is Will, what was he mixed up in, what’s with that gray sedan she keeps seeing in the neighborhood, and whom can Nora trust when nearly everyone in their insular, gossipy community seems to think she’s involved somehow? Anyone who’s ever struggled for acceptance by the “in” social group will sympathize with outsider Nora, especially when she’s supported by accomplished narrator Saskia Maarleveld’s brisk, warm delivery. We were rooting for Nora as she gathers the strength to stand up to the local mean girls and good old boys, going on the offensive to discover what really happened to her husband and why.
Customer Reviews
Happy Wife
4 stars
Kept my attention throughout!
I enjoyed this book a lot! Supposedly, there will be a second book coming out. I can’t wait! The narrator’s voice is pleasant to listen to.