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The Model Wife
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'Tricia Stringer has written a gorgeous book...The pages are filled with wonderful characters, each with their own well-crafted arc and polished prose. [The Model Wife] is the equivalent of a hot bath or a box of chocolates, it's comforting and an absolute pleasure to immerse yourself in.' - Better Reading Even a good woman can...
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- Published 2021
- Pre-owned
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'Tricia Stringer has written a gorgeous book...The pages are filled with wonderful characters, each with their own well-crafted arc and polished prose. [The Model Wife] is the equivalent of a hot bath or a box of chocolates, it's comforting and an absolute pleasure to immerse yourself in.' - Better Reading Even a good woman can be pushed too far... Natalie King's life is full. Some might say too full. With her teaching job, a farm to run, three grown daughters who have not quite got a handle on things, a reserved husband and a demanding mother-in-law, most days she is too busy to think about whether she is happy. But her life has meaning, doesn't it? After all, she is the one person everyone depends upon. But when an odd gift from her mother-in-law - an old book in the form of stern and outdated advice for young wives - surfaces again, it brings with it memories she thought she had buried deep. Has this insidious little book exerted some kind of hold over her? Could it be that in her attempts to be a loving w
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