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Novel About My Wife, EPUB eBook

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From one of Britains most exciting young writers comes the story of a couples emotional and complicated relationship from the husbands perspective. Novel About My Wife is narrated by Tom Stone as he searches through the mysteries his wife has left him with. The reader is left to discover what dark thing has come between him and his beloved partner.

Tom Stone is, as well as being cheerfully neurotic, madly in love with his wife Ann, an Australian in self-imposed exile in London. Pushing forty and newly pregnant, they buy their first house in Hackney. It seems they are moving into a settled future, despite spiralling money troubles. But Ann is dogged by a local homeless man whose constant presence comes to feel like a terrible omen. As her pregnancy progresses Ann finds solace in her new friendship with Kate, a woman Tom is both repelled by and peculiarly drawn to. Their home is beset with vermin, smells and strange noises. Is this normal for London, or is the measure of normality in this city actually mad?

Novel About My Wife is Toms effort to understand this woman he has been so blindly in love with, and to peel back the past to see where the real threats in their lives were hiding. It is an investigation of guilt, love, forgiveness, and the perils of forgetting.

She wasnt one of those women who hate their feet, who hate their bodies, the kind who turn the sight of their ass in broad daylight into a state secret. (God, you just find yourself dying for a glimpse, youll do anything to get it, hover outside the bathroom door, hide under a table, pull back the sheets when shes sleeping. Then because of all the mystery you end up, when youre finally feasting your eyes, thinking, hey, maybe she has got something to worry about.) Ann didnt care. Her body was open for viewing. It was one of the ways she distracted you from what was inside her head.
--from Novel About My Wife


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