St. Martin's Griffin
March 2019
On Sale: February 26, 2019
384 pages ISBN: 1250056438 EAN: 9781250056436 Kindle: B072TY6MS6 Trade Size / e-Book (reprint) Add to Wish List
From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren
Willig, comes this scandalous novel full of family secrets,
affairs, and even murder.
Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New
York: he's the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she
grew up in a Tudor house in England, they had a fairytale
romance in London, they have three-year-old twins on whom
they dot, and he's recreated her family home on the banks of
the Hudson and named it Illyria.
Yes, there are rumors that she's having an affair with the
architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. But
then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the
night of their Twelfth Night ball, Annabelle goes
missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad.
Bay's sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a
reporter to try and uncover the truth, convinced that Bay
would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third
party. But the more she learns about her brother and his
wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them
starts to unravel. Who were her brother and his wife,
really? And why did her brother die with the name George on
his lips?
The English Wife is another stunning novel by New
York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig that
bestselling author Jennifer Robson calls "her best book yet."