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THE MANUAL FOR GOOD WIVES
By: Lola Jaye
Pan
February 2026
On Sale: February 3, 2026
Featuring: Mrs Copplefield; Adeline
400 pages
ISBN: 1529064643
EAN: 9781529064643
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Multicultural African-American | Women's Fiction
Everything about Adeline Copplefield is a lie . . .
To the world Mrs Copplefield is the epitome of Victorian propriety: an exemplary society lady who writes a weekly column advising young ladies on how to be better wives.
Only Adeline has never been a good wife or mother; she has no claim to the Copplefield name, nor is she an English lady . . .
Now a black woman, born in Africa, who dared to pretend to be something she was not, is on trial in the English courts with all of London society baying for her blood. And she is ready to tell her story . . .
From the author of The Attic Child, Lola Jaye, comes a powerful dual narrative historical novel. The Manual for Good Wives is about love, generational trauma, second chances and hope.
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