Wife: A Deeply Witty and Empathetic Novel from the Author of The Exhibitionist

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'A bravura portrait of a marriage in meltdown' – The Observer

Wife is the bitingly witty new novel from the prize-winning author of The Exhibitionist, Charlotte Mendelson.

Dr Penny Cartwright is everything that Zoe Stamper is not: glamorous, sophisticated and openly gay. When they begin a passionate affair, a lifetime of wedded bliss seems within Zoe’s grasp. But this is not a love story. It’s the story of how love can bring about disaster . . .

'Crackles with female fire and fury' – The Guardian

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Unbearably brilliant' – Nigella Lawson, bestselling author of Cook, Eat, Repeat


'Fast and furious' – The Sunday Times

'A gift to the reader . . . Irresistible' – Amy Bloom, bestselling author of In Love

'A terrific panic attack of a novel' – i newspaper

About the author

Charlotte Mendelson’s previous novel, The Exhibitionist, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was Novel of the Year 2022 in The Times, as well as a book of the year in The Guardian and Good Housekeeping. Her other novels include Almost English, which was longlisted for both the Man Booker and the Women’s Prize for Fiction; When We Were Bad, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and was a book of the year in The Observer, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The New Statesman and The Spectator; and Daughters of Jerusalem, which won both the Somerset Maugham Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Wife is her sixth novel.

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