Novel About My Wife

Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she''s being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As their child grows, Ann''s behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, feverish and disturbed. On the verge of losing everything, Tom makes a decision that he hopes will save their lives. Novel About My Wife is a taut, sensuous and chilling portrait of a marriage beset by paranoia and obsession.

About the author

Emily Perkins was born in 1970. She is the author of Not Her Real Name, a collection of short stories which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize, and the novels Leave Before You Go and The New Girl. She lives in New Zealand.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Perkins, Perkins Emily
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 23.10.2025
• EAN: 9781526693587
• ISBN: 978-1-5266-9358-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION / Romance / Historical / Victorian, FICTION / Thrillers / Historical, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary