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false <![CDATA[Novel About My Wife]]> 427085 4 From one of New Zealand's most exciting young writers comes the story of a couple’s emotional and complicated relationship … from the husband’s perspective. Novel About My Wife is narrated by Tom Stone as he searches through the mysteries his wife has left him with. The reader is left to discover what dark thing has come between him and his beloved partner. Tom Stone is, as well as being cheerfully neurotic, madly in love with his wife Ann, an Australian in self-imposed exile in London. Pushing forty and newly pregnant, they buy their first house in Hackney. It seems they are moving into a settled future, despite spiralling money troubles. But Ann is dogged by a local homeless man whose constant presence comes to feel like a terrible omen. As her pregnancy progresses Ann finds solace in her new friendship with Kate, a woman Tom is both repelled by and peculiarly drawn to. Their home is beset with vermin, smells and strange noises. Is this normal for London, or is the measure of normality in this city actually mad? Novel About My Wife is Tom’s effort to understand this woman he has been so blindly in love with, and to peel back the past to see where the real threats in their lives were hiding. It is an investigation of guilt, love, forgiveness, and the perils of forgetting. She wasn’t one of those women who hate their feet, who hate their bodies, the kind who turn the sight of their ass in broad daylight into a state secret. (God, you just find yourself dying for a glimpse, you’ll do anything to get it, hover outside the bathroom door, hide under a table, pull back the sheets when she’s sleeping. Then because of all the mystery you end up, when you’re finally feasting your eyes, thinking, ‘hey, maybe she has got something to worry about.’) Ann didn’t care. Her body was open for viewing. It was one of the ways she distracted you from what was inside her head. --from Novel About My Wife 416108 2008 Novel About My Wife total:161|5:14|4:59|3:64|2:18|1:6| 161 540 339 51 4 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 15:48:32 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 15:51:52 -0700 2009 ...more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 20:37:52 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 20:31:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 14:07:31 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 14:10:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jul 09 19:53:02 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 19:56:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 07:34:42 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 07:49:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 24 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 11:14:58 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 26 11:16:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jul 18 13:26:07 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 04 16:35:46 -0800 2009
This book is narrated by Tom and is his attempt t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 06:33:55 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 06:37:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu May 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 09:48:36 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 09:49:17 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 04:43:51 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 04:46:09 -0700 2009
I liked the build-up of tension throughout, the way you knew something bad was going to happen, but didn't know when or what.

But I didn't like the tone of the narrator. Narrators who are writers can go one of two way...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 18:15:51 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 18:22:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 02:35:38 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 02:37:46 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri Jul 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 26 09:16:01 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 09:16:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 08:36:38 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 21:56:15 -0700 2009
On one hand, this book has great writing and interesting characters. I loved that it often mentioned things that allowed the reader to work out (or not).

On the oth...more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue May 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 14:36:05 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 18:06:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 06:28:17 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 06:28:17 -0700 2009 1 0 false false Tue Feb 17 09:22:16 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 09:23:31 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 19 23:59:08 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 20 00:00:16 -0800 2009
I'd like to talk to someone who enjoyed it and figure out why.
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