A Dream Life
A Memoir
$42.16
- Paperback
296 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2026
Summary
“A brutally honest portrayal of the emotional, psychological, and economic struggle to keep one’s family intact while enduring the acute financial betrayal and emotional abuse of a rogue spouse.” - Lisa Lawler, Founder of The White-Collar Wives Project
When Wendy Swift discovers a letter demanding nearly two million dollars in restitution from her attorney husband, she realizes that her life as a suburban stay-at-home mother has been built on illusion. Despite mountin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783988322104 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3988322105 |
| Author: | Wendy Swift |
| Publisher: | Vine Leaves Press |
| Imprint: | Vine Leaves Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 358g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
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About The Author
Wendy Swift
Wendy Swift is the author of the memoir, A Dream Life, as well as essays published in HuffPost, Memoir Magazine, Grub Street Literary Magazine, Barely South Review, Yellow Arrow Journal, Brevity Blog, and Lonesome Press. In 2006, Swift earned the Press Club of Long Island Award for her essay “Ritter’s Pond,” and in 2022, she earned Honorable Mention from the Connecticut Press Club for “The Sentencing.”
Swift is also a mentor with We Are Not Numbers, a writing platform for Palestinian writers, and serves as a fiction reader for Mud Season Review. She lives in Connecticut and when she is not writing or thinking about writing, she is walking wooded trails with her hound, Lulu.
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