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Wife 22 : a novel / Melanie Gideon.
Baring her soul in an anonymous survey for a marital happiness study, Alice catalogues her stale marriage, unsatisfying job and unfavorable prospects and begins to question virtually every aspect of her life.
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- ISBN: 9780345527950 (hc) :
- Physical Description: 380 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, c2012.
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| Subject: | Middle-aged women > Fiction. Surveys > Fiction. Wives > Research > Fiction. Working mothers > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Psychological fiction. |
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- Baker & Taylor
Baring her soul in an anonymous survey for a marital happiness study, Alice catalogues her stale marriage, unsatisfying job and unfavorable prospects and begins to question virtually every aspect of her life. A first adult novel by the best-selling author ofThe Slippery Year . 75,000 first printing. - Baker & Taylor
Baring her soul in an anonymous survey for a marital happiness study, Alice catalogues her stale marriage, unsatisfying job, and unfavorable prospects and begins to question virtually every aspect of her life. - Random House, Inc.
For fans of Helen Fieldingâs Bridget Jonesâs Diary and Allison Pearsonâs I Donât Know How She Does It comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . . and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her life.
Maybe it was those extra five pounds Iâd gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and I seemed to be running out of things to say to each other.
But when the anonymous online study called âMarriage in the 21st Centuryâ showed up in my inbox, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It wasnât long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22) and a caseworker (Researcher 101).
And, just like that, I found myself answering questions.
7. Sometimes I tell him heâs snoring when heâs not snoring so heâll sleep in the guest room and I can have the bed all to myself.
61. Chet Baker on the tape player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at those hands and thought, I am going to have this manâs children.
67. To not want what you donât have. What you canât have. What you shouldnât have.
32. That if we werenât careful, it was possible to forget one another.
Before the study, my life was an endless blur of school lunches and doctorâs appointments, family dinners, budgets, and trying to discern the fastest-moving line at the grocery store. I was Alice Buckle: spouse of William and mother to Zoe and Peter, drama teacher and Facebook chatter, downloader of memories and Googler of solutions.
But these days, Iâm also Wife 22. And somehow, my anonymous correspondence with Researcher 101 has taken an unexpectedly personal turn. Soon, Iâll have to make a decisionâone that will affect my family, my marriage, my whole life. But at the moment, Iâm too busy answering questions.
As it turns out, confession can be a very powerful aphrodisiac.
