WIFE

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…

“Charlotte Mendelson at her soul-searing best. Narcissistic monsters and suffocating families are quite the specialty of hers, but Wife is just unbearably brilliant”
— Nigella Lawson

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Praise for WIFE

‘Crackles with female fire and fury’
— The Guardian

‘Irresistible…Hilarious’
— Amy Bloom

‘Truly radical’
— The Spectator

‘A terrific panic attack of a novel’
— i Newspaper

  • ‘Fast and furious’ The Sunday Times

    ‘Truly radical’ The Spectator

    ‘Lacerating’ Financial Times

    ‘Captivating’ Glamour

‘A family saga of rare insight…Charlotte Mendelson is among the greatest villain-creators of contemporary fiction...disturbs as much as it entertains’
— Alex Clark, The Observer

‘Unbearably brilliant’ 
— Nigella Lawson