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 Award-winning fiction writer Charlotte Mendelson
Charlotte Mendelson Sophie Davidson
Thu 12 Sep 2024
An evening with award-winning fiction writer Charlotte Mendelson
Literature
Talk
Event organiser:
Truman Books

Join us in the shop, as we welcome award winning fiction writer Charlotte Mendelson, to chat about her 6th novel Wife.

When Zoe moves in with Penny, their relationship looks perfect; after all, everyone wants a wife, don’t they? But this is the story of how love can become a disaster. Zoe Stamper, junior researcher in Ancient Greek Tragedy, meets fellow academic Dr Penny Cartwright at a faculty flute recital. Dr Cartwright seems impossibly glamorous to Zoe, who is, after all, several rungs down the academic pecking order – and a nervous ingénue as far as Penny’s sophisticated circle is concerned. But Penny leaves Zoe a cryptic note, and a passionate affair ensues.


Once Penny confesses all to her live-in lover, Justine, her and Zoe’s happiness seems assured. But there is something else Penny needs as badly in her life as Zoe’s adoration, and thus the beginning of their affair might also have signalled its end.


Wife is an acutely observed and coruscating novel about the joys of passionate love and motherhood, and those left behind in its wake when passion curdles. It is heartbreaking and funny, profound and gripping, as it takes the reader from the end of a relationship to its beginning, and back again.

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    Date
    Thu 12 Sep 2024
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    Doors open 6:30pm event starts 6:45pm