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How to Be a Good Wife

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Zusatztext ‘The unnamed Scandinavian setting has all the familiar elements of contemporary northern lights noir, yet its claustrophobic, interior-driven narrative harks back to Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s disturbing feminist classic The Yellow Wallpaper , or even Ibsen's A Doll's House … The novel is Chapman's debut, and is eerily well-handled... Chapman shows real empathy for loneliness and the cruelty of ageing… A plausible tale of trauma, a ruthless examination of the many layers of marriage, and a woman's opaque role with it.’ Guardian Informationen zum Autor Emma Chapman was born in 1985 and grew up in Manchester. She studied English Literature at Edinburgh University, followed by a Masters in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. After university, she travelled in Scandinavia, which inspired the setting for How To Be a Good Wife . Klappentext 'Unnerving, clever' Red 'Eerily well-handled' Guardian Marta has been married to Hector for longer than she can remember. She has always tried hard to be a good wife. But now Hector has come home with a secret. And Marta is beginning to imagine - or revisit - a terrifying truth . . . 'A highly competent, creepy little chiller, but beneath, like a silent, bolted and half-dark room, there's a much bigger, equally disconcerting story about the nature of feminine experience . . . shows insight and emotional power' Hilary Mantel, Man Booker Prize winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies 'Disturbing, intense . . . gripping' Psychologies 'Brilliantly convincing . . . darkly fascinating' Financial Times 'Absorbing, multi-layered, chilling . . . you'll want to finish it all in one go' Daily Mail Vorwort A literary psychological thriller about the 'perfect' marriage. Zusammenfassung A literary psychological thriller about the 'perfect' marriage....

Product details

Authors Emma Chapman
Publisher Picador Uk
 
Languages English
Age Recommendation from age 18
Product format Paperback
Released 24.04.2014
 
EAN 9781447216193
ISBN 978-1-4472-1619-3
No. of pages 275
Dimensions 130 mm x 196 mm x 18 mm
Series Picador
Subjects Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships

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