Wow!! I just finished reading this novel by Elizabeth Brundage, called
The Doctor's Wife. It is a fantastic book. This is a must read!!
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"The memory starts here, in my apron pocket, with the gun." So begins
The Doctor's Wife, a stunning debut novel about four people and the cataclysmic intersection of their lives. From the outside, the Knowles family has it all. Michael is a rising OB/GYN at a prominent private practice in Albany, New York; he also moonlights at a local women's health clinic, and they live in a rambling Federal farmhouse with their two kids. But Annie has become tired of her husband's absences, and her role as wife/mother/teacher has worn thin. She begins a love affair with bad-boy celebrity painter Simon Haas, who is married to his muse and model, Lydia, upon whom he built his career. Simon reawakens Annie's passion - but events soon take a dark turn for the Knowles family.
Abortion, local evangelism, marital disenchantment, and the rifts of social class: Brundage takes on the fault lines of our era with a deft hand.
The Doctor's Wife is an accomplished, page-turning novel- "A fine debut, full of psychological suspense, plot twists and turns, malice disguised as religion, the taint of incest and cheating spouses."
