The Wife's Tale (Center Point Platinum Fiction) - Hardcover

Lori Lansens

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1602856141 ISBN 13: 9781602856141

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2010

Synopsis

A brilliant new novel deeply humane and entirely convincing from Lori Lansens, author of two previous bestsellers and a writer who can be counted on to deliver an amazing story and characters to fall in love with.

In Lori Lansens Leaford, Ontario home of Rose and Ruby Darlen, the sorrowing parents of Larry Merkel, and not far from Rusholme where Addy Shadd once looked after an abandoned child love and grief combine to awaken an obese woman from her loneliness. When her husband doesn t come home on the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch, who has never learned to be self-sufficient, sets out on a truly remarkable journey of self-discovery that takes her first to the big city and then to another country.

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From the Back Cover:

On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy, who is still every bit 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.

For the first time in her life, she boards a plane and flies across the country to find her lost husband. So used to hiding from the world, Mary finds that in the bright sun and broad vistas of California, she is forced to look up from the pavement. And what she finds fills her with inner strength she's never felt before. Through it all, Mary not only finds kindred spirits, but reunites with a more intimate stranger no longer sequestered by fear and habit: herself.

About the Author:

Lori Lansens is the author of two bestselling novels, Rush Home Road and The Girls, which was a Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year in 2006 (and sold over 300,000 copies in the UK) and a finalist for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction. Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario, Lori Lansens now makes her home in California.

About this edition

• Publisher: Center Point Pub
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1602856141
• ISBN 13: 9781602856141
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 478