The Paris Wife

With vivid, memorable touches … McLain captures Hemingway’s legendary charisma, and his fatal tendencies – Sarah Churchwell * Guardian *With vivid, memorable touches … McLain captures Hemingway’s legendary charisma, and his fatal tendencies – Sarah Churchwell * Guardian *A beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s - as a wife and as one’s own woman * Entertainment Weekly *A beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s - as a wife and as one’s own woman * Entertainment Weekly *As much about life and how we try to catch it as it is about love even as it vanishes … utterly absorbing – Sarah Blake, author of The PostmistressAs much about life and how we try to catch it as it is about love even as it vanishes … utterly absorbing – Sarah Blake, author of The Postmistress[A] beautifully imagined novel … sharp, unsparing and delivered in a pared-down prose that the great man himself would have applauded * Sunday Telegraph *[A] beautifully imagined novel … sharp, unsparing and delivered in a pared-down prose that the great man himself would have applauded * Sunday Telegraph *Hadley is a deeply touching character, dignified even as she loses almost everything she’s loved, and making her goodness both convincing and interesting is an impressive feat – Olivia Laing * Guardian *Hadley is a deeply touching character, dignified even as she loses almost everything she’s loved, and making her goodness both convincing and interesting is an impressive feat – Olivia Laing * Guardian *

Paula McLain received an MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the author of two collections of poetry, as well as a memoir, Like Family, and a novel, A Ticket to Ride. She lives in Cleveland with her family.