The Wife's Tale
by:
Lori Lansens (author)
Format: paperback
ASIN: B00A19YZP6
Publish date: 2011-07-07
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pages no: 356
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Drama,
Family,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Canada,
Marriage
This was the second book I've read by Lori Lansens and I wanted to love it just as much as I had loved The Girls...but the most I can admit to is that The Wife's Tale was okay. Just okay.I actually didn't like Mary very much. I'm not exactly sure why I didn't like her...it's not as if she did anythi...
This one starts off kind of sad. Mary Gooch is on the cusp of her 25th wedding anniversary, totally overweight, and paralyzed by inertia. She remembers the days when the doctors whisper the “obese” word to her mother, she remembers when she lost all that weight and was as carefree as could be. But l...
Didn't like the ending, but as a fellow Canadian expat, I found the northern references hilarious, as only another Canadian can appreciate.
I enjoyed this book - but the ending wasn't up to par for me. I felt like it was an okay ending - but I wanted her husband to come back and see how she'd transformed and made a new way for herself. Just felt like I was waiting for something that never came. But overall it was an enjoyable read.
Mary Gooch has lived her whole life in Leaford, Ontario. Life is not perfect. She has no clothes that fit her to wear to her father’s funeral and the outfit she bought just three weeks ago to wear to her silver anniversary dinner is now too tight. She has a part time job she hates, a house she h...
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