Ponce Morris is a beautiful, rich widow whoβs known as βthe spare wifeβ because sheβs the perfect companion to the wealthy, powerful, New York couples in her elite social circle. She throws elegant dinner parties, goes to sports events with the husbands, and shops with the wives. Sheβs both flawlessly appropriate and coolly nonthreateningβeveryone knows Ponce doesnβt have a romantic bone in her body. Over the years, she has managed other peopleβs livesβand her ownβperfectly. Then Babette Seele, an ambitious, aspiring journalist, discovers that Ponce is having an affair with a socially prominent, very married man, and decides to break the scandal, turning Ponceβs carefully calibrated world upside down. Witchelβs sophisticated, witty, sexy satire provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives and loves of upper-class New Yorkers, sharply exposing the foibles of the fabulous.
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