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young Mrs. Lucy Carelton, it’s becoming harder and harder to be the perfect wife. While other women revel in the
rigors of the Season, she feels overwrought and increasingly suffocated. Her husband, William, his
beautiful, fragile wife to doctor after doctor, with no success. But now a
brilliant and controversial new healer has arrived in New York City. Victor
Seth is a doctor of neurology. He is also a hypnotist, maybe a charlatan. Victor Seth holds out the
promise of salvation. Or does he? For the compelling doctor has his own
agenda. In the fascinating Mrs. Carleton, he perceives an opportunity he
cannot resist, and soon his actions will set off a chain of events that will
have shocking repercussions no one can foresee, Lucy least of all. Heartrending and suspenseful,
disturbing and darkly erotic, An Inconvenient Wife is a masterful
blending of historical detail and flawless storytelling that shows how a
woman can be driven to the edge of sanity, driven even to the ultimate
betrayal. Reviews for An Inconvenient Wife: Booksense Pick Summer 2006 “This is the novel Edith Wharton might have
written if she had lived in the 21st Century.” –The Seattle Times “Wholly absorbing … [A]
diabolically clever, thoroughly entertaining take on women’s liberation.”—Booklist “This is an incredible novel with an ending that will leave
you breathless!”—Kelly Dickinson, Oregon
State University, Booksense Summer 2006 “In this gripping historical, Chance exposes the horrors
women faced in late 19th-century New York when they dared to show
passion of any kind of repudiate society’s norms… The role of the unconscious
mind and its impact on conscious behavior is explored in depth here, and
Chance ends this lightning-paced narrative with a clever twist underscoring
the risks one woman takes to be her own person. --Publisher’s Weekly “I couldn’t put it down.”—Brenda
Vest, Aiken County Public Library “Set in the era and among the
social class most famously chronicled in the novels of Edith Wharton, the
story combines elements from classic feminist lit. Kate Chopin’s The
Awakening collides with Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow
Wallpaper—with a denouement straight out of Hitchcock.”—The Capital Times “Filled with thrills, drama,
intrigue, intellect and romance, An Inconvenient Wife is a stunning
creation…”—Carly Hope, Enpowerment4Women.org “An Inconvenient
Wife is a must read, as well as being a
book that is bound to spur many a heated conversation.” Roundtablereviews.com |
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