Look to Your Wife

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A debut novel by a bestselling non-fiction author, this is a witty, wholly entrancing story of the pleasures, pains and obsessions of contemporary life.
Lisa Blaize teacher, and would-be fashion writer, mother and second wife feels out of place when her high-flying husband becomes the headmaster of a school in a country town. Isolated and far from her metropolitan upbringing, she turns to the one place where she learns she can be uninhibited.

But Twitter may be my undoing, Lisa discovers as her one-time private life becomes all too public. Soon she is dealing with an online stalker and her husbands reputation is put at risk, but will she be able to give up her addiction

From the gossip of the classroom to our obsession with instant communication, Look To Your Wife is witty and brilliantly observed, revealing the pleasures and pains of contemporary life.

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Zingy, fast-moving novel It is very readable, elegantly written and crafted, and there are some sharp pieces of social observation The Times

This energetic debut has genuine suspense
But what I liked best were the backstage glimpses of an elite educational institution: something the author, married to the master of an Oxford college, knows all about Daily Mail

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Paula Byrne was born in Birkenhead and has a PhD from the University of Liverpool, where she is a Research Fellow in English Literature. Her first book, Jane Austen and the Theatre, was shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize. Her second book, Perdita: The Life of Mary Robinson , the tale of the scandalous star of the 18th-century stage, literature and high-society, was a Richard and Judy bookclub pick. Her most recent book is Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead. The story of Evelyn Waugh's friendship with the extraordinary aristocratic family who inspired Brideshead Revisited, it was a Sunday Times top ten bestseller. A regular contributor to the 'Times Literary Supplement', she lives in Warwickshire with her two young children and her husband, the critic and biographer Jonathan Bate.