Novel About My Wife

For fans of Ian McEwan, Joanna Briscoe, Zoe Heller, Julie Myerson and Rachel Cusk Emily Perkins's collection of short stories won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize Shortlisted for The Believer Book Award 2008

A darkly gripping story from a prize-winning authorTom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she's being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As their child grows, Ann's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, feverish and disturbed. On the verge of losing everything, Tom makes a decision that he hopes will save their lives. Novel About My Wife is a taut, sensuous and chilling portrait of a marriage beset by paranoia and obsession.