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The Editor's Wife

By: Clare Chambers
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From the highly acclaimed author of Small Pleasures - longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021.

When aspiring novelist Christopher Flinders drops out of university to write his masterpiece (in between shifts as a fish delivery man and builder's mate), his family is sceptical.

But when he is taken up by the London editor Owen Goddard and his charming wife, Diana, it seems success is just around the corner. Christopher's life has so far been rather short of charm - growing up in an unlovely suburb, with unambitious parents and a semi-vagrant brother - and he is captivated by his generous and cultured mentors.

However, on the brink of realising his dream, Christopher makes a desperate misjudgment that results in disaster for all involved. Shattered, he withdraws from London and buries himself in rural Yorkshire, embracing a career and a private life marked by mediocrity.

Twenty years on, a young academic researching into Owen Goddard seeks him out, and Christopher is forced to exhume his past, setting him on a path to a life-changing discovery.
©2007 Clare Chambers (P)2021 Penguin Audio
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An Intriguing Narration

A beautifully written and beautifully narrated novel. I enjoy the style of this author. Sensing a fairly 'unreliable narrator" in the first two-thirds of the novel, I thought it would go somewhere a bit further., a bit darker. However, there was considerable character development and I love the way it all turned out.

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