**'Mendelson is a master of the literary monster' The Sunday Times
When Zoe moves in with Penny, their relationship looks perfect; after all, everyone wants a wife. But this is the story of how love can become a disaster . . .**
Once Penny confesses all to her live-in lover, Justine, their happiness seems assured. But there is something else Penny needs as badly in her life as Zoe's adoration, and thus the beginning of their affair might also have signalled its end . . .
Wife by Charlotte Mendelson is a beautifully observed and coruscating novel about the joys of passionate love and motherhood, and those left behind in its wake when passion curdles. It is heartbreaking and funny, profound and gripping, as it takes the reader from the end of a relationship to its beginning, and back again.
'A bravura portrait of a marriage in meltdown' The Guardian
**'A clever, lacerating account of coercive control . . . a finely executed novel' Financial Times
'Charlotte Mendelson at her soul-searing best . . . unbearably brilliant' Nigella Lawson, TV cook and bestselling author of Eat, Cook, Repeat**