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alobearI picked up Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon in a charity shop recently because I thought it sounded interesting - and it was awesome!!
It's about a 40-something wife and mother who answers an email request to take part in a survey about marital happiness - and ends up getting more involved than she anticipated with the researcher on the other end of her emails.
A lot of it is painfully realistic and relatable - and some of it is just painful.
But overall, it's a fascinating, entertaining, amusing, poignant and occasionally hard-hitting exploration of relationships (both romantic and otherwise), mid-life insecurities and worries, the changing nature of the world, and how it feels to think you're stuck and things have slid out of your control.
Very well written, both in first-person and mixed media (with texts, emails, social media posts, etc).
And it went to a lot of places I really didn't expect. I'm not sure how I felt about every aspect of the twists and turns, but I liked being surprised, and I think it ended up where it needed to go.
It's about a 40-something wife and mother who answers an email request to take part in a survey about marital happiness - and ends up getting more involved than she anticipated with the researcher on the other end of her emails.
A lot of it is painfully realistic and relatable - and some of it is just painful.
But overall, it's a fascinating, entertaining, amusing, poignant and occasionally hard-hitting exploration of relationships (both romantic and otherwise), mid-life insecurities and worries, the changing nature of the world, and how it feels to think you're stuck and things have slid out of your control.
Very well written, both in first-person and mixed media (with texts, emails, social media posts, etc).
And it went to a lot of places I really didn't expect. I'm not sure how I felt about every aspect of the twists and turns, but I liked being surprised, and I think it ended up where it needed to go.
