The Prodigal Wife: A Novel - Hardcover

Willett, Marcia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312605307 ISBN 13: 9780312605308

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books, 2010

Synopsis

“Deservedly compared to her countrywomen, Binchy and Pilcher, Willett is an equally gifted storyteller.”—Booklist

In Marcia Willett’s latest novel, Jolyon, who had been abandoned by his mother, Maria, is living at the Keep with his father and his stepmother Fliss. Now that Jolyon is a successful television presenter of gardening programs, the recently widowed Maria, lonely and impressed by her son’s fame, reappears and hopes to step back into his life. But Jolyon finds it difficult to trust his mother and forgive the hurt she had inflicted on him.

About this title

About the Author:

The Prodigal Wife is MARCIA WILLETT’S eleventh novel to be published in the U.S. Her novels are available in over ten countries around the world. She lives in Devon, England.

From Booklist:

The institutions of marriage and family come under particularly keen scrutiny in Willett’s reliably tender hands even as she casts an uncharacteristically harsh light on the adult children of a close-knit group of friends, a generation still reeling from the aftereffects of parental divorces that took place years earlier. Enjoying newfound celebrity as the host of a popular television show, Jolyon Chadwick finds the glow of his success quickly tarnished when it brings the unwelcome attention of his estranged mother, Maria. Jolyon has long resented the way she abandoned him when she divorced his father to marry her lover, and he has little sympathy for her now that she is a recent widow at loose ends. Likewise, Henrietta bears thinly veiled animosity toward her mother, successful journalist Cordelia Lytton, as she continues to blame her for the affair that ended her parents’ marriage and caused her father to unceremoniously walk out of her life forever. Willett’s hopeful messages of contrition and redemption frequently are obscured by an overly complicated labyrinth of internecine strife. --Carol Haggas

About this edition

• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0312605307
• ISBN 13: 9780312605308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336