(Ebook) The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore ISBN 9781504050289, 1504050282, B079S14QHW

(Ebook) The Doctor's Wife by Brian Moore ISBN 9781504050289, 1504050282, B079S14QHW

A surgeon’s wife embarks on a passionate affair with a younger man in Brian Moore’s powerful portrayal of a woman transformed by love in this novel of “brilliant insight” (The Times, London). 

"Brian Moore's unhappy women appear in varying strengths and weaknesses and he has written signally better about them than most men - a recurrent observation."  -  Kirkus Reviews

Mrs Sheila Redden arrives in Paris on the way to the south of France for a second honeymoon. She has booked the same hotel room they stayed in on their first honeymoon. Her husband Kevin, a surgeon in Belfast, is delayed by work obligations. He promises to join her, but she knows that he is not keen on the trip. While in Paris, Sheila meets a young American man. They begin a love affair that overwhelms her with its emotional and sexual power.

"Mr Moore could not write badly if he tried, but he has wasted his skill on this trite story of a bored housewife who runs amok in France with an unsuitably juvenile lover."  -  Phoebe-Lou Adams, The Atlantic

Brian Moore's novels The Doctor's Wife, The Colour of Blood and Lies of Silence were all shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He twice won the Canadian Governor General’s Award for Fiction and has been honoured by the United States Institute of Arts and Letters. He won the Author’s Club First Novel Award for The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for The Great Victorian Collection.