The Wife's Tale by Lori Lansens
On the eve of their silver anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband, Jimmy still every inch the handsome star athlete he was in high school to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is gone. Through the years, disappointment and worry have brought Mary s life to a standstill, and she has let her universe shrink to the well-worn path from the bedroom to the refrigerator. But her husband s disappearance startles her out of her inertia, and she begins a desperate search. She boards a plane for the first time in her life and flies across the country to find her lost husband. So used to hiding from the world, Mary learns that in the bright sun and broad vistas of California, she is forced to look up from the pavement. And what she discovers fills her with an inner strength she s never felt before: perfect strangers who come to her rescue, an aging, sometimes hostile mother-in-law who needs her help, friends who enjoy her company. And through it all, Mary not only finds kindred spirits, but reunites with a more intimate stranger no longer sequestered by fear and habit: herself. With the generosity and delicate grace that had readers falling in love with her bestselling novel, The Girls, Lori Lansens brings us another moving and beautifully wrought story, this time of a woman taking small yet courageous steps toward her authentic self.Before authoring her first novel, Rush Home Road, LORI LANSENS was a successful screenwriter whose work was translated into twelve languages and published in fifteen countries. Her second novel, The Girls, was a worldwide bestseller and a Richard & Judy book club pick in the United Kingdom, selling 300,000 copies. Her third book, The Wife's Tale, was a national bestseller, as was her fourth novel, The Mountain Story, which was praised by the Globe and Mail as an almost heartbreaking and forceful feat of narrative. Her sixth novel, This Little Light, continued the astonishing pattern by becoming a national success. Lansens, who was born and reared in Chatham, Ontario, now resides in California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316069328 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316069329 |
| Title | The Wife's Tale |
| Author | Lori Lansens |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Back Bay Books |
| Year published | 2011-07-07 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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