Wife

''Charlotte Mendelson at her soul-searing best . . . Unbearably brilliant'' - Nigella Lawson, bestselling author of Cook, Eat, Repeat Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is heartbreaking and funny, profound and gripping, as it takes the reader from the end of a relationship to its beginning, and back again. Zoe Stamper, junior researcher in Ancient Greek Tragedy, meets fellow academic Dr Penny Cartwright at a faculty flute recital. Dr Cartwright seems impossibly glamorous to Zoe, who is, after all, several rungs down the academic pecking order. But Penny leaves Zoe a cryptic note, and a passionate affair ensues. Once Penny confesses all to her live-in lover, Justine, their happiness seems assured. But there is something else Penny needs as badly in her life as Zoe''s adoration, and thus the beginning of their affair might also have signalled its end . . . ''Mendelson is a master of the literary monster'' - The Sunday Times ''A bravura portrait of a marriage in meltdown'' - The Observer ''A clever, lacerating account of coercive control'' - Financial Times

About the author

Charlotte Mendelson's novels include Daughters of Jerusalem, When We Were Bad, Almost English, The Exhibitionist and Wife. She has won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, and has been longlisted and shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of one work of non-fiction, Rhapsody in Green, and is the gardening correspondent for The New Yorker. She lives in London.

Product details

• Authors: Charlotte Mendelson, Mendelson Charlotte
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.05.2025
• EAN: 9781529052831
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-5283-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 199 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; London, Greater London, Central London, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Divorce & Separation, 20th Century, 21st Century, Of specific Lesbian interest, Narrative theme: Sense of place, c 2000 to c 2009, Relating to lesbians, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1990 to c 1999, c 2010 to c 2019, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / LGBTQ+