false 6452818 2 A brilliant new novel — deeply humane and entirely convincing — from Lori Lansens, author of two previous bestsellers and a writer who can be counted on to deliver an amazing story and characters to fall in love with.<br><br>In Lori Lansens’ Leaford, Ontario — home of Rose and Ruby Darlen, the sorrowing parents of Larry Merkel, and not far from Rusholme where Addy Shadd once looked after an abandoned child — love and grief combine to awaken an obese woman from her loneliness. When her husband doesn’t come home on the eve of their 25th wedding anniversary, Mary Gooch, who has never learned to be self-sufficient, sets out on a truly remarkable journey of self-discovery that takes her first to the big city and then to another country. 6643024 10 2 2009 The Wife's Tale: A Novel total:30|5:7|4:11|3:9|2:2|1:1| 30 111 176 16 4 0 false false Sun Aug 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 12:31:57 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 12:33:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 14:27:43 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 22:48:04 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 28 07:40:06 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 13:52:59 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 11:36:24 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 20:26:00 -0700 2009 1
The Plot: Mary Gooch is a morbidly obese woman with a pretty face, a husband of 25 years, and a small bubble of a life that she's content to go on living in. That is, until her h...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 07:36:14 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 03 12:38:14 -0700 2009 The Girls, is one of my favourite and Rush Home Road was a wonderful novel which I loved too. Her new work,The Wife's Tale A Novel, while well written with and interesting main character in Mary Gooch, was not as strong as her previous two works. In thi...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Sep 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 12:12:36 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 11:31:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 04 19:53:36 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 09:33:17 -0700 2009
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