Four Wives

Description

In Wendy Walker's insightful debut, the picture-perfect lives of four wives and mothers begin to unravel against the backdrop of outrageous suburban wealth.On the outside, Love Welsh, Marie Passeti, Gayle Beck and Janie Kirk seem to have it all - marriages to handsome, successful men, beautiful children and the kind of affluence most people dream of. But in the gilded suburb of Hunting Ridge, appearances mask a deeper truth. Behind the facade of contentment they struggle to maintain, each of the women must confront her own crisis. From infidelity and abuse to malaise and the haunting ghosts of a troubled past, their not-so-perfect lives are slowly exposed. And as springtime draws to a close, the women come face to face with the most difficult challenge of their lives - to reconcile their innermost desires with the lives that each of them had chosen.

Wendy Walker is a former commercial litigator and investment banker who now works at home writing and raising her children. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and three sons, and is currently writing her second novel.

"Walker's first novel is a treat. It's well written and features great characters, lots of humor, and dead-on analysis of friendship, marriage, and motherhood." --Library Journal "Wendy Walker writes a cleverly woven, sexy debut that is a fascinating peek inside the gilded cages of suburban matrimony....A true page-turner treat." --Jill Kargman, author of Momzillas and co-author of The Right Address "A fascinating read. Wendy Walker delivers a blistering dissection of modern suburban marriage. I couldn't put it down." --Danielle Ganek, author of Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him "Four Wives is a brilliantly clever and accurate study in domestic discontentment. Acutely well-observed and suspenseful, it's a stunning reflection of life in an affluent American suburb, where the women seem to have everything...except happiness. A great read." --Jane Green, author of The Other Woman and Swapping Lives