Four Respectable Ladies Seek the Meaning of Wife

✍ Scribed by Barbara Toner

• Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 248 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0143787586

✦ Synopsis

'Marriage isn't always a bed of roses. And there are many ways to be a wife,' the vicar informs the town .
It's 1930, and as the Depression overtakes rural New South Wales, what it means to be a wife tests the four respectable ladies of Prospect to their very limit.
Louisa Worthington fled to the city ten years ago, pregnant, poor and under a cloud of scandal. Now she's back - blonde and brazen - with her heart set on the married son of the town's mayor.
Adelaide Nightingale , newly widowed and starved of romance, yearns for adoration, security and a version of herself defined by beauty not business.
Maggie Albright dreams of empire building, but is hamstrung by her over-cautious husband, who grows less handsome by the day.
Then there'sPearl Fletcher , happily married to Joe, the district's most successful sheep farmer, but protecting a secret that could tear their family apart.
And hovering in the town's shadows is a...