Young Wives
By (Author) Olivia Goldsmith
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
2nd November 2000
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Classic fiction: general and literary
Family life fiction
Contemporary lifestyle fiction
Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales
Religious and spiritual fiction
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Narrative theme: Social issues
813.54
Paperback
608
Width 111mm, Height 178mm, Spine 37mm
310g
The battle of the sexes hasn't ended -- it's just moved to suburbia. Now Olivia Goldsmith returns to the trenches in a new novel as unforgettable as The First Wives Club. Michelle has a perfect marriage, a perfect house and a perfect life in middle-class Westchester -- until she finds out how her husband has been paying for it all. Her friend Jada has worked too hard to become the first black woman bank manager in their town, as well as a wonderful mother and homemaker, to let her lay-about husband take it all away from her. But can she stop him Angie is their lawyer -- and she knows exactly what they're going through. Married just a year ago, she's been shell-shocked to find out about her wealthy, Ivy League husband's extra-marital activities. Can she help herself, as well as helping her friends Let down by their men and by the law -- now all they have is each other. Moving, funny and angry, this is the story of how a friendship formed in adversity helps Michelle, Jada and Angie fight back.
Acclaim for Olivia Goldsmith: 'One of our most acute observers of modern marriage and betrayal' Good Housekeeping 'Goldsmith's characters are wilful, robust, amusing and delightfully credible' Mail on Sunday
Olivia Goldsmiths first novel, THE FIRST WIVES CLUB, was made into a very successful movie. Others of her novels are in development, including YOUNG WIVES. She died in 2004.