Young Wives: A Novel - Softcover

Goldsmith, Olivia

3.45

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ISBN 10: 0060955635 ISBN 13: 9780060955632

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2000

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Three women set out to achieve a most unique and satisfying revenge on their deadbeat, philandering, duplicitous husbands.

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The women in Olivia Goldsmith novels always share the same unfortunate affliction: they have been dumped on by men--usually from a very great height. Following this formula, Young Wives is rather like her best-seller The First Wives Club (the film of the book starred Diane Keaton, Bette Midler and Goldie Hawn), set a decade earlier.

Three women from different walks of life, with different styles and different tastes, with the usual common denominator: dishonest, lazy, arrogant, selfish, good-for-nothing husbands (choose adjective to fit).

Angie is a lawyer about to celebrate her first wedding anniversary to her drop-dead-gorgeous, perfectly groomed, Ivy-League catch. Except the catch has a catch of his own to drop--and it's not exactly conducive to a long and happy marriage.

Michelle and Jada meanwhile are best friends, in spite of their many differences. Beautiful, long-legged blonde Mich is happily married to Frank whose role is to provide. Everything. Mich and her two children want for nothing. Jada, the only black career girl in the neighbourhood, is married to Clinton, an unemployed builder who can't even raise the enthusiasm to finish the kitchen floor. As the sole breadwinner, Jada is forced to work longer and longer hours to provide for her three kids.

It's not long before the worms turn. And, just like those First Wives, our Young Wives have a whole lot of avenging to be doing. Thankfully though, it really doesn't matter whether or not you have previously read or seen Olivia Goldsmith's work. Young Wives stands on its own as a ripping yarn, overflowing with characters so real you feel like you know them--or want to know them. Almost double the size of the average novel, this is a book you will make excuses to stay home and read. It's also a film waiting to happen... --Carey Green

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Acclaim for Olivia Goldsmith:

‘One of our most acute observers of modern marriage and betrayal’
Good Housekeeping

‘Full of wisecracks, and gossip... Olivia Goldsmith can keep you reading’
Cosmopolitan

‘Goldsmith’s characters are wilful, robust, amusing and delightfully credible’
Mail on Sunday

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