The Senator's Wife
A Richard & Judy Pick, from the Bestselling Author of Monogamy
1st Edition
Published on 26. June 2014
320 pages
978-1-4088-5765-6 (ISBN)
Description
'Tasteful, elegant, sensuous' Boston Globe
'Incredible ... Perfect book-club material' Easy Living
'Addictive' Eve
'Complex, rich, haunting' Woman & Home
Maybe some people just like to keep things private. Secret, I guess you'd say.
Love came late to Meri, but in a rush: she met Nathan at thirty-six, he moved in a month later, and they married a month after that. Now they are moving to New England and a house of their own - a new life that Meri is not sure she even wants. She loves her husband, but feels there may be trouble ahead.
Nathan, however, is boyishly excited that their next-door neighbour is the eminent Senator Tom Naughton, a political hero of his, now in his seventies. The Senator is nowhere to be seen, but Meri strikes up an unexpected friendship with his wife, the elegant Delia, sensing that she has much to learn from her - about marriage, love and motherhood.
But soon she comes close to a terrible breach of trust that could ruin everything. Even the most public marriages have their secrets...
What readers say about The Senator's Wife:
'I love this book ... captivating'
'Subtle, rich and oh so close to home'
'I couldn't put this book down'
'Very gracious, warm and funny'
'Excellent and perceptive storytelling of the highest order'
'These characters are alive, they are real'
'This is an exquisite book, with many twists and turns and moments of pure beauty and poignancy.'
'This book is still haunting me, several weeks later ... I didn't want it to end'
'Incredible ... Perfect book-club material' Easy Living
'Addictive' Eve
'Complex, rich, haunting' Woman & Home
Maybe some people just like to keep things private. Secret, I guess you'd say.
Love came late to Meri, but in a rush: she met Nathan at thirty-six, he moved in a month later, and they married a month after that. Now they are moving to New England and a house of their own - a new life that Meri is not sure she even wants. She loves her husband, but feels there may be trouble ahead.
Nathan, however, is boyishly excited that their next-door neighbour is the eminent Senator Tom Naughton, a political hero of his, now in his seventies. The Senator is nowhere to be seen, but Meri strikes up an unexpected friendship with his wife, the elegant Delia, sensing that she has much to learn from her - about marriage, love and motherhood.
But soon she comes close to a terrible breach of trust that could ruin everything. Even the most public marriages have their secrets...
What readers say about The Senator's Wife:
'I love this book ... captivating'
'Subtle, rich and oh so close to home'
'I couldn't put this book down'
'Very gracious, warm and funny'
'Excellent and perceptive storytelling of the highest order'
'These characters are alive, they are real'
'This is an exquisite book, with many twists and turns and moments of pure beauty and poignancy.'
'This book is still haunting me, several weeks later ... I didn't want it to end'
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-5765-6 (9781408857656)
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04/2009
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Person
Sue Miller was born in Chicago in 1943. She is the bestselling author of eight previous novels including The Good Mother, While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest and Lost in the Forest, and of the acclaimed memoir The Story of My Father. She serves as the chair of PEN, New England. Sue Miller lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Content
- Intro
- Title page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- CHAPTER ONE - Meri, June 1993
- CHAPTER TWO - Delia, August 1993
- CHAPTER THREE - Meri, September 1993
- CHAPTER FOUR - Meri, September and October 1993
- CHAPTER FIVE - Meri, October and November 1993
- CHAPTER SIX - Delia, Christmas, 1971
- CHAPTER SEVEN - Delia, Spring Through Fall, 1972
- CHAPTER EIGHT - Meri, December 1993
- CHAPTER NINE - Delia, Early May 1994
- CHAPTER TEN - Delia, May 1994
- CHAPTER ELEVEN - Meri, May 1994
- CHAPTER TWELVE - Meri, May and June 1994
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Delia, June 1994
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Meri, July 3, 1994
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Delia, July 5, 1994
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Meri, July 7, 1994
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Delia, July 9, 1994
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Meri, July 9-15, 1994
- CHAPTER NINETEEN - Delia, July 19, 1994
- CHAPTER TWENTY - Meri, July 19, 1994
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - Delia, Late Afternoon, July 19, 1994
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - Meri, February 2007
- A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- BY THE SAME AUTHOR
- Also available by Sue Miller
- eCopyright
