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The Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story . . .
Paula McLain’s New York Times –bestselling novel piqued readers’ interest about Ernest Hemingway’s romantic life. But Hadley was only one of four women married, in turn, to the legendary writer. Just as T.C. Boyle’s bestseller The Women completed the picture begun by Nancy Horan’s Loving Frank , Naomi Wood’s Mrs. Hemingway tells the story of how it was to love, and be loved by, the most famous and dashing writer of his generation. Hadley, Pauline, Martha and Mary: each Mrs. Hemingway thought their love would last forever; each one was wrong.
Told in four parts and based on real love letters and telegrams, Mrs. Hemingway reveals the explosive love triangles that wrecked each of Hemingway's marriages. Spanning 1920s bohemian Paris through 1960s Cold War America, populated with members of the fabled "Lost Generation," Mrs. Heminway is a riveting tale of passion, love, and heartbreak.
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From Booklist
In their own ways and in their own times, Hadley, Pauline, Martha, and Mary all loved Ernest Hemingway. All experienced the passionate days of early courtship, the midsummer lethargy, the chipped-ice daiquiris that became acceptable earlier and earlier in the day. They all knew the sting of betrayal as his notoriously wandering eye eventually turned to another woman, and they all knew the safety of his embrace. They knew how to weather the tides of his creativity, how to support and nourish and heal and mend. While Hemingway’s stories are known worldwide, Wood used copious love letters, diaries, and telegrams to flesh out the stories that these women might have told. Flitting from bohemian 1920s Paris to sunny Havana, from Paris in the days of WWII to 1960s America, Mrs. Hemingway spans eras. Wood’s research gives this passionate story a firm foundation, and readers who enjoyed Loving Frank (2007) and The Paris Wife (2011) will adore this ideal summer read. Seamlessly blending known facts with fiction, Mrs. Hemingway is an absorbing, tender glimpse inside the lives of those in Hemingway’s inner circle. --Stephanie Turza
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Praise for Mrs. Hemingway
** A Harper’s Bazaar(UK) Best Book of 2014**
** A Stylist Magazine (UK) Best Book of 2014**
“Wood has given us a fascinating, astutely observed, gorgeously written account of the Hemingway wives and their charismatic, enigmatic, troubled and troublesome husband. This is a gem of a book.”
—Therese Ann Fowler,_New York Times bestselling author of Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald _
“Naomi Wood’s absorbing, illuminating novel offers fascinating portraits of four extraordinary women and the tortured literary genius who loved them. If you thought you knew all there was to know about Ernest Hemingway’s wives, their passions, and their heartbreak, think again.”
—Jennifer Chiaverini , _New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker and Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival _
“It takes an unusual skill to keep someone reading a story to which they think they already know the ending. But_ Mrs. Hemingway _is so beautifully written, and evocative, that I could not put it down until the last page.”
—Jojo Moyes , _New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You _
“With remarkable insight and boldness, Naomi Wood brilliantly takes on one of history’s most remembered writers and the women who loved him. Obsessively readable, fascinating, and heartbreaking,_ Mrs. Hemingway _captures a time and people in a style the legend himself would no doubt admire.”
—Erika Robuck , bestselling author of _Hemingway’s Girl _
“Forget everything you thought you knew about Ernest Hemingway’s four wives. In a quartet of searing interlocked portraits, Naomi Wood brings vividly to life the real women who loved and lost the legendary charmer and great writer._ Mrs. Hemingway _is a luminous heartbreaking novel. Wood is a writer to watch.”
—Ellen Feldman , Orange Prize-shortlisted author of _Lucy _
“A detailed and deeply affecting account of the complex relationship between love and work.” —Ian Sansom , author of _The Case of the Missing Books _
“It's superb, everything about it - the sentences, details, dialogue, but also the architecture, the way it's built. It flirts with all that’s already known, but the women feel real and fresh, and through their eyes so does Hemingway.”
—Andrew Cowan , author of _Pig*
“Luminous, intoxicating…A passionate novel based on real lives, full of betrayals and moments of heartbreaking intimacy as Wood gives four remarkable women star billing.”
—_Marie Claire _(UK)
"Readers who enjoyed Loving Frank and The Paris Wife will adore this ideal summer read. Seamlessly blending known facts with fiction, Mrs. Heminway is an absorbing, tender glimpse inside the lives of those in Hemingway's inner circle."
**—_*Booklist
“Well researched . . . interesting . . . [and] cleverly done.”
— **Literary Review**** (UK)**
“Exquisitely written, the Mrs. Hemingways finally have their say in this beautiful novel.”
—** Stylist Magazine****(UK)**
“A beautiful read and an amazing insight into the life of the man . . . superb.”
—** Red****(UK)**
“Very occasionally, a piece of fiction based on facts is so good that I catch myself thinking: ‘Oh, so that’s how it really was.’ Wood achieves this in this breathtakingly good look at the lives of Ernest Hemingway’s four wives . . . . Sublime.”
** —** **The Bookseller****(UK)**