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Ballantine Books
June 2012
On Sale: May 29, 2012
400 pages
ISBN: 034552795X
EAN: 9780345527950
Kindle: B005OCYRLC
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
For fans of Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones’s Diary
and Allison Pearson’s I Don’t Know How She Does It
comes an irresistible novel of a woman losing herself . . .
and finding herself again . . . in the middle of her
life.
Maybe it was those extra five pounds I’d
gained. Maybe it was because I was about to turn the
same age my mother was when I lost her. Maybe it was
because after almost twenty years of marriage my husband and
I seemed to be running out of things to say to each
other.
But when the anonymous online study
called “Marriage in the 21st Century” showed up in my inbox,
I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life. It
wasn’t long before I was assigned both a pseudonym (Wife 22)
and a caseworker (Researcher 101).
And, just
like that, I found myself answering questions.
7. Sometimes I tell him he’s snoring when he’s
not snoring so he’ll sleep in the guest room and I can have
the bed all to myself.
61. Chet Baker on the tape
player. He was cutting peppers for the salad. I looked at
those hands and thought, I am going to have this man’s
children.
67. To not want what you don’t have. What you
can’t have. What you shouldn’t have.
32.
That if we weren’t careful, it was possible to forget one
another.
Before the study, my life was an
endless blur of school lunches and doctor’s appointments,
family dinners, budgets, and trying to discern the
fastest-moving line at the grocery store. I was Alice
Buckle: spouse of William and mother to Zoe and Peter, drama
teacher and Facebook chatter, downloader of memories and
Googler of solutions.
But these days, I’m
also Wife 22. And somehow, my anonymous correspondence with
Researcher 101 has taken an unexpectedly personal turn.
Soon, I’ll have to make a decision—one that will affect my
family, my marriage, my whole life. But at the moment, I’m
too busy answering questions.
As it turns
out, confession can be a very powerful aphrodisiac
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