'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 c
Four Respectable Ladies Seek the Meaning of Wife
โ Scribed by Barbara Toner
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Australia
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 248 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0143787586
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โฆ 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...
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