A Perfect Wife

by Cristina Odone (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1998

  $4.39

  A portrait of marriage in moral and sexual crisis set in the world of politics and the media today. Nina and Michael Lewis are the perfect couple. He is the supremely ambitious deputy-editor of the Sunday Herald, she the cool, elegant daughter of an academuc, whose social connections make her the ideal complement to him. Yet when Michael finally achieves a long awaited career promotion, the triumph sends a devastating series of shockwaves through Nina's World. Secrets come to light,old certainties fade, and there are betrayals. As Nina senses her safe life starting to crumble, she is increasingly drawn to the Reverand Alexander whose clearly defined valuesseem the 1 rock in a landscape of deceipt. But if Nina is no longer a perfect wife, what has she now become?

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.40

  Christina Odone's gripping and sophisticated new novel captures with an insider's eye the unforgiving yet cmpelling world of the media. Her portrait of a marriage in a moral and sexual crisis against the background of an extreme moral mood is a mirror for our times, and reveals her to be a storyteller of irresistible power.