The Wife's Tale

The Wife's TaleOn the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy still every inch 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

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

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 07/07/2011
ISBN: 9780316069328
Pages: 356
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.61w x 1.04d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 08/07/2011 pg. 24
Romantic Times 10/01/2011 pg. 68 - Excellent