The Rector's Wife: a moving and compelling novel of sacrifice and self-discovery from one of Britain’s best loved authors, Joanna Trollope

by JoannaTrollope (Author)

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  Paperback
  1992

  $3.23

  For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband's surplices and clothed herself and her children in jumble-sale items. When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the local comprehensive reaches an intolerable level, Anna rebels. She takes a job in the local supermarket where she earns her own money, her sense of self-worth, the shocked disapproval of the parish and the icy fury of her husband. She also attracts the passionate interest of three very different men, each of whom was to play a significant part in the blossoming of her life ...

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.23

  For 20 years Anna Bouverie, as a vicar's wife, had served God in a diversity of ways. When her husband failed to gain promotion and retreated into isolated bitterness, she rebelled and took a job in the local supermarket. Soon she found herself admired by three very different men.

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  Hardcover
  1991

  $3.23

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  Paperback
  1992

  $12.16

  For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband's surplices and clothed herself and her children in jumble-sale items. When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the local comprehensive reaches an intolerable level, Anna rebels. She takes a job in the local supermarket where she earns her own money, her sense of self-worth, the shocked disapproval of the parish and the icy fury of her husband. She also attracts the passionate interest of three very different men, each of whom was to play a significant part in the blossoming of her life ...