Novel About My Wife
$21.74
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
3 November 2025
Summary
The Shadow in Hackney: A Novel of Obsession
Rejacketed edition of the darkly gripping novel by the Ockham Prize-winning author of *Lioness*
Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she’s being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781526693587 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1526693585 |
| Author: | Emily Perkins |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm |
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Critics Review
‘Novel About My Wife is the fascinating portrait of a marriage, in all its labyrinthine complexity and tenderness. A beautiful, shocking book, it had me gripped from its very first sentence’ * Maggie O’Farrell *‘A frightening tale of delusion … fast and inexorable … Perkins draws out the emotional tension and the thematic parallels while keeping the action tight and gripping’ * Sunday Times *‘A sensuous and compassionate study of a doomed relationship, which suggests that love can survive the vicissitudes of modern life; and, perhaps, death itself’ * Daily Mail *‘Chilling … One of the year’s most intimate novels’ * Time Out *
About The Author
Emily Perkins
Emily Perkins was born in 1970. She is the author of Not Her Real Name, a collection of short stories which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize, and the novels Leave Before You Go and The New Girl. She lives in New Zealand.
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